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Q Yesterday, a 5-month-old Latino boy was brought to the emergency department of the general hospital in Denver where you work because his mother was concerned about his three-day history of subjective fever and fussiness, including refusal to sleep. You were out, but today you're handed his chart, and a note catches your eye describing three episodes of nonbloody, nonbilious vomiting and two loose stools the day of presentation.

Q A 3-year-old boy in my practice is afraid of toys, especially when he sees and hears them talking on television.

Q I have two questions: First, a 17-year-old, well adolescent girl in my practice plucks her eyebrows unknowingly—usually while watching television on school days.

Q A large, prepubescent 11-year-old boy came in for a school examination, after not having been in my office for three years.

It won't come as a great surprise to pediatricians that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) isn't the only viral cause of winter respiratory tract infection in infants. There have always been patients with upper airway congestion, wheezing, and even apparent viral pneumonia who appear in the midst of, or on the edges of, RSV season, but whose rapid antigen test doesn't support a diagnosis of RSV.

An unexpected outcome to a troubling behavior problem/Job appraisal: Pediatricians are a contented lot

Crossword puzzle all about anemia

Reviews children's books on birthdays, anniversaries, growing older, and the passing of time in keeping with the 2004 anniversary theme

2004 immunization schedule for January to June 2004

Herpes simplex infection is often misdiagnosed. Here is a look at distinguishing features of type 1 infections and a review of associated disorders, diagnostic tools, and treatment options.

A buildup of cerumen can make it difficult to examine your patient's ears, but the wrong approach to cleaning the wax can cause even bigger problems. What's the right way to get rid of wax?

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One pediatrician's quest to find the answer to colic leads to a hypothesis about the condition and a five-step technique pediatricians can teach parents to calm their crying baby. Includes two Guides for Parents.

The 5-week-old girl just admitted to your pediatric service is here for evaluation of lethargy, jaundice, and poor weight gain after hardly a month at home. Admission came at the request of the gastroenterologist to whom she had been referred by her primary care pediatrician because of rising direct hyperbilirubinemia.

Q In keeping with the national trend, I've noticed that more and more of my school-age and adolescent patients are becoming overweight.

Once Thanksgiving 2003 passed, Congress grew anxious to adjourn; members prefer to spend the Christmas season at home, with family and constituents.

Jaundice and lethargy (septo-optic dysplasia or SOD)