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The common cold can make children--and parents, too--uncommonly miserable. What approaches can pediatricians recommend? The authors examine the options and suggest restraint.

This widely used OTC drug has minimal side effects, but it's easier than parents realize to give a child too much. Find out how these therapeutic misadventures come about and what you can do to prevent them.

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Maternal depression and domestic violence aren't new problems, but recognizing them and referring parents appropriately are skills not usually taught in pediatric residency programs.

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Alternative therapies seem to thrive where mainstream medicine is most challenged. The focus here is on herbs and supplements used to treat childhood cancers?why they're used, what families hope for from them, and how the evidence stacks up.

Pediatricians know a lot about both the benefits and the detrimental effects of television, co-sleeping, and peanuts. It's tempting to try to synthesize that information into sweeping, apparently simple recommendations. When we do that without real evidence, however, we risk our own credibility and that of all those who have worked so hard to investigate the means by which we can make real improvements in the lives of children.

Knowing what signs and symptoms suggest intracranial pathology can help pediatricians approach the diagnosis of a brain tumor quickly and with confidence. As primary care physicians, they also play a key role in long-term management.

As the day-care population grows, so does the need to protect both children and staff from infectious diseases. This concise overview summarizes how different infections spread, who's at risk, and the policies and procedures needed to control infection without excluding children from day care unnecessarily.

While infant abductions are rare, a few occur every year. Pediatricians should be aware of preventive steps to take in hospitals and how to educate parents in the art of protecting their newborns.

When you turn to a consultant for help in a complex case, are you sometimes sorry you asked? This primer shows how to make consultations more productive by checking out a specialist's credentials, asking well-defined questions, and resisting intimidation.

While infant abductions are rare, a few occur every year. Pediatricians should be aware of preventive steps to take in hospitals and how to educate parents in the art of protecting their newborns.

Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis are not confined to the gastrointestinal tract. Growth failure, painful joints, and oral or skin lesions are just a few of the nonintestinal signs and symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease that can help you make a diagnosis-- sometimes even before GI problems appear.

When a child falls hard on an outstretched hand, something in the elbow may stretch or break. Elbow away confusion about these injuries by boning up on the most common problems and how to manage them.

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Resistance is only one reason acute otitis media may fail to respond to a first course of amoxicillin. In deciding what to do next, you'll need to take the other possibilities into account as well.