Pediatrics News

Joanne Wechsler and her son Jacob, 10, left the Middlebury public H1N1 flu clinic Tuesday vaccinated against the virus.

Say it ain't so! Is it really true that videos for babies don't make the infants smarter? This question has been given new life with the scandal - yes, the scandal - over the Baby Einstein Co.

"My three year old had a skin breakout we think was due to eggs - is it safe to do a flu shot?" It's a question being asked to every doctor who takes care of kids during flu season.

STICKEVERS Abstract There are no data to suggest that children who have gay or lesbian parents are different in any aspects of psychological, social, and sexual development from children in heterosexual families.

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 An article published Online First and in the January edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that MRI scans on infants who's brains were oxygen deprived can predict with 80 percent accuracy the likelihood of death or disability by ...

Doctations, Inc., an innovative leader in applying Internet technology to improve healthcare, provides Priority Pediatrics, a new after-hours pediatric urgent care center, with fast, easy to use internet-based electronic medical record keeping and practice management tools that enables the center to efficiently deliver critical after hours urgent ...

Infants who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at increased risk for bronchiolitis, according to a new study.

Do pediatric oncologists feel that religion is a bridge or a barrier to their work? Or do they feel it can be either, depending on whether their patients are recovering or deteriorating? A novel Brandeis University study examines these questions in the current issue of Social Problems .

Some of New York City's largest employers - including Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and big universities - have started receiving doses of the much-in-demand swine flu vaccine for their at-risk employees.

Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health ; GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST A surgeon at Children's National Medical Center and his colleagues from New York University have found laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding to improve the health of morbidly ...

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST Nearly half of all American children will reside in a household receiving food stamps at some point between the ages of 1 and 20, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 Penicillin and several other antibacterial medications commonly taken by pregnant women do not appear to be associated with many birth defects, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , ...

The shortage of swine flu vaccines is frustrating for parents. We visited Northampton area pediatrics today where they say they are more than frustrated over how the swine flu vaccine was doled out.

This mom says giving her kid pot has made all the difference. Gina Kaysen Fernandes : As the mother of an autistic child , Marie Myung-Ok Lee is navigating uncharted territory as she struggles to manage her son's condition.

With fear about the dangers associated with flu vaccinations spreading almost as quickly as the H1N1 virus itself, it's no wonder people are confused about the proper course of action.

Main Category: Bones / Orthopaedics Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 USANA Health Sciences, Inc.

Researchers say they've found a surprising link between some common antibiotics used to treat urinary infections and birth defects.

Yet another study has found that television viewing is linked to aggression in young children.

Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.

THE 2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA virus has evidently arrived in the Two River area. Although the virus has not become widespread, there are instances of significant absenteeism at local schools.