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A cool compress for itchy eyes-and rumbling stomachs

An improved prognosis for children with autism depends on prompt and intensive intervention. That can happen only if the condition is screened for and diagnosed at a very young age.

Supreme Court gets a new chief justice, grand plans emerge for rebuilding flood-ravaged Gulf Coast, and OTC status for Plan B again in limbo.

Prompt diagnosis and treatment of what was once considered a rare disorder of early childhood can eliminate symptoms and prevent long-term problems, such as osteoporosis and intestinal cancer.

Five new indications for growth hormone in children who are not GH-deficient have gained FDA approval. What are the pros and cons?

Sudden cardiac death in a child is an uncommon but devastating occurrence. Using the primary and secondary prevention strategies discussed here, it can also be an avoidable one.

Your patient is a 2-month-old boy of Native American and Puerto Rican descent undergoing evaluation of fever, hepatomegaly, and pancytopenia of uncertain cause.

The vulnerability of children in catastrophes involving terrorism.

Families with children who have an allergy often take complex steps to provide a "clean" environment in the hope of reducing allergic reactions and asthma attacks. But do those steps really help?

The lesions in this newborn's mouth are Bohn nodules. These mucous gland cysts manifest as firm, small (less than 3 mm) grayish white nodules--usually in the mouth on the buccal or lingual aspect of the alveolar ridges. They occasionally occur on the palate, and may be confused with large Epstein pearls.

Female infant born to a gravida II, para I, 23-year-old mother at 38 weeks' gestation. Pregnancy complicated by oligohydramnios. Cesarean delivery performed because of prolonged time after rupture of membranes and fetal distress. Apgar scores, 3 and 6 at 1 minute and 5 minutes, respectively.

Welcome to the Fall 2005 edition of "Dateline" from the editors of Contemporary Pediatrics! The editorial staff will be reporting live from the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. We will bring you important news about your specialty and your practice from the floor. Watch your electronic in-box for digests of the meeting's most important and pertinent clinical and investigational news-gathered from CME sessions, research forums, press briefings, and the exhibit hall.

The inability to calculate therapeutic dosages for children accounts for the majority of pediatric drug errors, according to Ronda G. Hughes, PhD, MHS, RN, and Elizabeth A. Edgerton, MD, MPH, of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. But there are practical ways for nurses-who often have primary responsibility for ensuring patient safety in the hospital and are usually the providers who administer the medications-to reduce the likelihood of a mistake.

Lately, I've spent a lot of time talking about the alleged link between thimerosal in pediatric vaccines and autism. Most of you have been asked by parents whether immunizations pose a risk of autism as well, and some parents are so frightened by rumors, press reports, and information on the World Wide Web that they forgo immunizations for their children altogether.

Let all the families you care for know that domestic violence is an issue of concern to pediatricians by screening for it-consistently. Here's how to do that, and how to manage dilemmas that can arise as a result.