Podcasts

For our second episode in the series, we sat down with Candice Jones, MD, who is a board-certified general pediatrician in group practice in Orlando, Florida. She is also a former National Health Service Corps Scholar.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew J. Schuman, MD, FAAP, to discuss the many facets of pediatric nutrition.

Dr Anna Mandalakas, professor of pediatrics and tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, looks at the 2 screening methods available for latent tuberculosis in children, what the preferred tests have been according to the American Academy of Pediatrics Red Book, and a new study that takes a look at both testing methodologies, to compare efficacy.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew J. Schuman, MD, FAAP, to discuss his reflections on 2020 and what he thinks may happen in 2021.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Paul Offit, MD,to talk about his recently published book Overkill: When modern medicine goes too far, which discusses medical myths.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew Schuman, MD, FAAP, to discuss the ear exam, hearing loss, and when to refer to audiology.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew J. Schuman, MD, FAAP, who is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and also a practicing pediatrician, to talk about why he went into medicine and what he loves about pediatrics.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew Schuman, MD, FAAP, to discuss the effectively use of technology in pediatrics.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Cori Cross, MD, to discuss how families can start to bring back screen time and media use back to pre-lockdown levels.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew J. Schuman, MD, to discuss vaccine hesitancy and how those sentiments could impact the future COVID-19 vaccine.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Donna Hallas, PhD, RN, PPCNP-BC, CPNP, PMHS, FAANP, FAAN, to discuss the debate over returning to in-school education during a pandemic and how health care providers can help.

Contemporary Pediatrics sat down with Andrew Schuman, MD, to talk about how technology can help slow the spread of COVID-19.

What is COVID-19's association with conjunctivitis?

Contemporary Pediatrics recently spoke with Mary Koslap-Petraco, DNP, PNP-BC, CPNP, FAANP, a nationally known expert in immunization practice, about why measles infection rates have skyrocketed in her home state of New York, what’s in store for the rest of the United States during the current measles outbreak, and how physicians can engage with parents to boost immunization rates.

Contemporary Pediatrics sits down exclusively with Sheila Fallon Friedlander, MD, a professor dermatology and pediatrics, to discuss the one key condition for which she believes community pediatricians should be especially aware-hemangiomas.

Contemporary Pediatrics sits down exclusively with Philippe F. Backeljauw, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist to discuss the one key condition for which he believes community pediatricians should be especially aware-Turner syndrome.

Jamie Glater, MD, discusses an NIH-sponsored study investigating the effectiveness of an auditory brain stem implant in young children with congenital cochlear nerve agenesis.

Each year in this country, physicians prescribe medications to treat ADHD in nearly 3 million children. The safety of these agents has been the subject of some debate.

Transgendered and LGBTs are bullied and victimized at alarmingly high rates. How, then, to protect children and adolescents from physical harm?

Bath salts and herbal incense-synthetic legal intoxicating drugs (so-called SLIDs)-have potentially serious adverse effects-including acute psychosis, delirium, violent behavior, seizures, and cardiovascular emergencies.

Young female athletes are vulnerable to concussions and other sports-related head and neck injuries. Repeated insult may lead to permanent neurologic deficit.

Here to discuss her observations about controller medication use and sleep problems in children with asthma is Michelle Garrison, MD.

In this podcast, Dr John Kelso dispels myths and makes a case for office-based spirometry for pediatricians.

Here, in the second in a series of podcasts, Dr Ellen Clayton reviews findings of a landmark Institute of Medicine study on vaccine safety and offers information about specific vaccines that may be very useful to you when you answer questions from worried parents.

The issue of vaccine safety has been making headlines lately. Some of the publicity-particularly in the lay press and television-has been negative.

You and your colleagues are undoubtedly hearing questions from a lot of concerned parents about the new guidelines for vaccinating young boys against HPV infection. What are the chief concerns-and how can you best address those concerns?

What exactly are the new guidelines for vaccinating boys against HPV infection-and why is this development good news for both men and women?

How will you address this question when your patients ask? Find out in this podcast.

Dr Jon E. Grant talks about the genetics, neurobiology, and cognitive processes of body-focused repetitive behaviors, which include trichotillomania, skin picking, and other behaviors.