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Intervention to prevent reading problems needs to occur long before first grade. Incorporating a reading promotion program into your practice can improve the reading ability of children and bestow lifelong benefits.

As knowledge of the genetics of congenital heart disease in children races ahead, primary care physicians struggle to keep up.

Habit of waking up for a drink of milk, thumb sucking is affecting mouth structure

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After complaining several days earlier of itchy, red bumps on both legs, a 6-year-old boy awoke one morning to find large blisters on his shins.

Habit of waking up for a drink of milk, thumb sucking is affecting mouth structure

Bioterrorism and its aftermath.

The 17-month-old girl who has been brought to the emergency department today has a 10-day history of what her exasperated parents describe as episodes of "stiffening."

New ADHD guidelines: Get the child involved, Immunizations grab the spotlight, for the moment, The new new morbidity. Eye on Washington

EMRs are here.

EMRs are the wave of the future.

Among this year's debuts: A faster-acting anesthetic cream, a laser for finger sticks, a kid-friendly defibrillator, new CLIA-waived rapid tests, respiratory therapy devices, and software to simplify your practice.

Bioterrorism and its aftermath.

Most children with constipation don&t have an underlying organic disease. The history and physical exam are usually sufficient to diagnose functional constipation. Behavioral modification, education, and oral laxatives are mainstays of treatment.

When otitis and toilet training were at the top of parents& worry list, pediatricians knew how to respond. Today, parents want to know how to keep children safe from terrorists with biological weapons, and pediatricians have no ready answers. This review should make you better informed.

The newborn girl has just been delivered by emergency cesarean section when the nurse practitioner in attendance calls you with concerns about her appearance and the possibility of sepsis.

UN report on the world's children: Things are better?and worse, Have we located a gene for language? Can parents tell how good their child's care is? Eye on Washington

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Overuse injuries have become common as more and more children participate in sports. A careful history can identify risk factors; targeted patient education can lead to successful rehabilitation and prevent injuries.

It's time to think hard about the unthinkable: medical errors. But there are strategies that you can implement to reduce the risk of a harmful, even lethal, mistake.

Threats from individuals and groups that harness hate to destroy now take priority over threats from sharks and predictable yearly bouts with infectious diseases. It is vital, however, that we--and our nation's leaders--not forget that the issues that were important on September 10 have not disappeared.

Boy's crushing disappointment in himself

Skin condition that appears in the fall when the heat is turned on.

As a pediatric resident, I am comfortably situated under the umbrella of academic medicine, where I make my choices and bounce them off people who've already trodden these paths. I hear their experiential biases and incorporate them into my evaluation of patients.