Elsevier announces a publishing partnership with the Ambulatory Pediatric Association
...ociation, we believe Ambulatory Pediatrics offers pediatricians an increasingly important perspective on the multitude of issues affecting their practice and the health of the patients they serve."...Breath test offers hope for early detection of lung-bacteria growth in cystic fibrosis
...eloped for air-pollution testing, UCI chemists and pediatricians have found that people with cystic fibrosis exhale higher concentrations of sulfur compounds from their lungs than do people who don't have the disease. These sulfur compounds, called sulfides, are known to be produced by bacteria, and lung disease ...Adolescents who watch smoking in movies are more likely to try smoking
.... In 2003, the group released a recommendation to pediatricians to tell parents that limiting access to movies can reduce their chance of smoking. In May of 2005, the group published a study that found that tobacco brands are still common in PG-13 movies despite the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement the prohibits...Less sleep, more struggles for elementary and middle school students
...be forefront in the minds of school psychologists, pediatricians and other professionals responsible for diagnosing and treating these problems. "If we don't ask about sleep and try to optimize sleep patterns in kids struggling academically, then we aren't doing our job," Fallone said. For parents, he said, the me...Daycare illness guidelines exist, but largely unknown
... Hospital Medical Center study shows that parents, pediatricians and child care providers are equally unknowledgeab...rics, found that child care providers, parents and pediatricians knew guideline recommendations for 12 common childhood ailments only 60 percent of the time. "Inappr...Research review finds tobacco scenes in movies boost teen smoking
...ications for the current policy debate between the pediatricians and parents, on one side, and a handful of media companies on the other. The science is in; getting smoking out of youth rated movies is the simplest and least expensive thing that can be done to reduce adolescent smoking."...Comforting behavior mistaken for movement disorder
...r be distracted out of an episode. Mink recommends pediatricians and pediatric neurologists ask parents to video-ta...ests that could be unnecessary. Mink also cautions pediatricians and parents against making any assumptions about what masturbation means for the child in the long r...Researchers: More women physicians likely to choose pediatric subspecialties
...ns among health care analysts that the majority of pediatricians in training are now women and that that might caus...el Hill study concludes. Unlike in the past, women pediatricians are increasingly likely to enter subspecialties, researchers discovered, saying that the news is rea...Risky sex in Miami, racial influence on children's care in latest Journal of Urban Health
...cs of international resort areas." *Children whose pediatricians are of a different race/ethnicity do not receive l...n part because of availability. Only 10 percent of pediatricians nationally were African American or Latino as of 2004. *Although African Americans have been shown...Flu not the only germ threat this time of year
...hospitalizations of adults each year. In addition, pediatricians have long known that the bug is a danger to small children, affecting hundreds of thousands of children annually as the biggest cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia among infants and children under 1 year of age. For more than a decade Falsey and Wal...Premature babies and SIDS: Doctors should make special effort to talk to parents About Risk
... for SIDS later and longer than full-term infants, pediatricians should adjust when they offer counseling to parent...ve an increased risk of SIDS, she adds. Typically, pediatricians concentrate their SIDS prevention counseling during the neonatal and two-month well-child visits. Th...Home paper shredders pose serious injury risk to toddlers
...machines. In addition, the authors recommend that pediatricians ask parents whether they have a shredder in the home and, if so, advise them to keep it unplugged and out-of-reach (above toddler height) and to never allow children to use the shredder, even under direct supervision....Antidepressant use during pregnancy appears associated with withdrawal symptoms in newborns
...f family physicians, psychiatrists, gynecologists, pediatricians and mothers," the authors write. "Because maternal depression during pregnancy also entails a risk to the newborn, the risk-benefit ratio of continuing SSRI treatment should be assessed." If a mother and physician decide medication is necessary, sh...Counseling children about skin cancer important, but rarely done
More pediatricians should counsel children and their parents about pr...(UV) light and skin cancer in order to familiarize pediatricians with the magnitude of the skin cancer problem and the evidence that exposure to UV light, particular...Skin cancer prevention needs to begin in early childhood
...ic Dermatology. Therefore, researchers are urging pediatricians to educate children and their families about skin ... measures from pediatricians. "We recommend that pediatricians counsel children and their parents about UV protection," states Dr. Mandeep Kaur, an Instructor at t...Most hospitals surveyed do not initially require board certification of pediatricians
...y 80 percent do not require board certification of pediatricians at the time of initial granting of hospital privil...124 hospitals (78 percent) did not require general pediatricians to be board certified at the time of initial privileging; however, 111 hospitals (70 percent) did r...Researchers say criterion for diagnosing child abuse not always accurate
...hild was abused. Unfortunately, many pathologists, pediatricians and ophthalmologists have been taught that retinal hemorrhages are diagnostic of child abuse unless the child was involved in a high-speed car crash or fell more than two stories." Currently, when child abuse is suspected, doctors conduct an eye exam...Postpartum depressive symptoms in mothers associated with some unfavorable parenting practices
...to provide guidance." In addition, they continue, pediatricians should take extra care to discuss ongoing interactive parenting practices with mothers who are suffering from depression....Clinical decision support tool improves doctors' diagnostic skills in just one minute
...ion Making reveals that consulting Isabel prompted pediatricians to make an important change to their diagnosis in ...s in the UK and Isabel Healthcare, UK. Seventy-six pediatricians of different grades, including senior physicians and final year medical students, were asked to diag...Pediatricians don't often refer patients to community resources for childhood aggression
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Training pediatricians to recognize the signs of aggression and make a re...Medical Center. Shari Barkin, M.D., says making pediatricians aware of local resources and encouraging them to make referrals early is vital, yet even after train...