Study finds parents rarely use baby gates, bath thermometers
... thermometers less than 25 percent of the time and pediatricians are partially to blame. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that primary care physicians discuss The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) with parents during the four to six month check-up. TIPP sheets include safety devices such as bab...UCI researchers to study health effects of exercise in children
...ven though children are the most active age group, pediatricians and other health care professionals receive little or no formal training in assessing their patients' physical activity levels or how to motivate parents to alter their children's physical activity patterns. The problem is even worse in children with...Pediatricians fail to screen for autism, Hopkins study finds
Few Maryland and Delaware primary care pediatricians screen patients regularly for autism and autism-sp...ins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Of the 255 pediatricians who participated in the study, 209 (82 percent) said they regularly screen their patients for genera...Inhaled steroids help young children breathe but do not prevent chronic asthma
...gland Journal of Medicine, answers a question that pediatricians and researchers have been asking for years: Can me...ve index can be used as a tool to help parents and pediatricians recognize vulnerable children early, in order to begin treatment and help the children have as many ...Public needs to heighten awareness of dangers of elevated TVs that are larger, heavier
...outhwestern Medical Center study. UT Southwestern pediatricians reviewed a year's worth of emergency department cases involving children injured by television sets toppling over, usually because of climbing toddlers or someone accidentally knocking over the TV. Their findings, available online, appear in the June...Hopkins researchers develop new quick tool to sort out insect bites in children
... is a guide to the symptoms and features that help pediatricians and others to recognize the source of a rash. I...gh invasive-not to mention expensive-procedures if pediatricians recognize the problem early on," says Raquel Hernandez, M.D., a third-year resident at the Children'...Early drinking linked to risk for alcohol dependence
...king onset." The results highlight the need for pediatricians and other health care professionals to discuss alcohol use with adolescent patients and to implement policies that discourage drinking at younger ages, the authors conclude....Trouble putting the kids to sleep?
Washington, D.C. − Although about half of pediatricians recommend that children under age 2 can be given d... infant and toddler use," says Merenstein. Half of pediatricians recommend use of diphenhydramine, according to surveys, and many child-rearing books offer the same ...Parents of teens more likely than parents of younger children to store firearms unsafely
...atricians' offices, since teens often do not visit pediatricians and their parents may not accompany them to physician appointments.(Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006;160:788-792. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://www.jamamedia.org .) ...Overweight in early childhood increases chances for obesity at age 12
...children's weight should speak to their children's pediatricians about helping their children establish more healthful diet and exercise patterns. Because pediatricians regularly measure their patients' height and weight, Dr. Nader added, they are in an excellent posit...Identifying risk for obesity in early childhood
...eptember issue of Pediatrics, can help parents and pediatricians determine the risk that a child will be overweight at age 12 by examining the child's earlier growth. The study demonstrates that children who are overweight at any stage of their growth before age 12 are more likely to be overweight by the time the...Violence in the home leads to higher rates of childhood bullying
...olence traditionally have been sticky subjects for pediatricians to talk about. "Physicians may have been afraid of the answers they might get and may not know of community resources that are available. In the not so recent past, intimate partner violence was something physicians typically did not ask about. To...'Wait-and-see' approach for treating ear infections substantially reduces use of antibiotics
...and-see prescriptions remain controversial as most pediatricians in the United States have been trained to routinely prescribe antibiotics for AOM and believe that many parents expect a prescription; a small minority of practitioners who care for children routinely use watchful waiting. "The WASP approach may int...Study in recent issue of Clinical Pediatrics helps pediatricians to understand discipline practices
...na, indicates that, while national guidelines urge pediatricians to address discipline, many don't know what leads ... during their own childhood. The research provides pediatricians with more information so they can address discipline more consistently and effectively with their pa...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...as an age-related growth curve, just like the ones pediatricians routinely use in evaluating a childs age-related height and weight. "Our goals were to provide age-appropriate and health-based metabolic syndrome component cut-points for adolescentsthat could be used consistently in clinical and research setting...Infection detectives use disease 'fingerprints' to track common infections in children
...it establishes a basis for us to do that." While pediatricians couldnt perform the analysis in their offices, researchers are already thinking about a possible way they could send in the results from the chip and get the analysis back via the Internet, for example. "Pediatricians understand that this could cha...Pediatricians rarely provide translation services for patients with little English proficiency
Most pediatricians use untrained interpreters to communicate with fam...Johns Hopkins University. Nearly two-thirds of the pediatricians surveyed said they relied on the patients bilingual family member to relay health information. Pedia...Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
...than ever to involve health care providers such as pediatricians in educating parents about the potential hazardous...nimal formal medical training exists regarding how pediatricians can effectively speak to their patients about secondhand smoke-related issues, according to an artic...Forensic pathologists tell physiologists what they know about death and what puzzles them
...those whose parents placed them on their stomachs, pediatricians recommended infants sleep on their backs. SIDS deaths dropped 40 percent. However, SIDS remains a problem and little is known about why it strikes some children and not others. In at least some cases, research has already shown that some infants have...Pediatricians and pathologists see traumatic brain injury differently
...scenarios of traumatic brain injuries to children, pediatricians and pathologists were unable to agree half the tim...ow. We need to know more and we cant until we have pediatricians and pathologists, the doctors who see these children, speaking the same language," said Dr. Laskey. ...