Summertime is in full swing and the emergency rooms are busy with all the summer childhood illnesses and injuries.
Some of them are the result of mere moments worth of inattentiveness by parents and more of them merely not realizing that the obligatory parental worrying needs to shift focus in the summer from what it has been in the winter.
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Let’s be a little daring today and run around with a pin popping people’s bubbles – at least as it regards misconceptions about children and drunk driving.
All the press from organizations like MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving) I’m afraid has left even me with the mental picture of some cretin (more…)
I’m sorry, but I just have to say it: “neaner, neaner, neaner. See I told you so!”
I know that some of you thought you had me when five out of seventeen studies showed “no correlation” between being treated for ADHD and prevention of the increased incidence of smoking in this group of kids.
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Recent advances in disease testing methods as well as research into contraception and infection issues has recently prompted a review and adjustment to guidelines for adolescent gyn or pelvic exams.
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Ok, it’s pretty much the last drive down the field for the high school home team who needs a touchdown to win and they are within 15 yards of the goal. On the first snap someone comes from nowhere and sideswipes the quarterback – now he’s lying limp on the field without the slightest movement.
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Last weeks issue [Apr 25, 2014] of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was quite disheartening in that it reported a new surge of Measles cases – a disease which was once on the razor’s edge brink of eradication.
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I have to say that reading the research study that I’m commencing to tell you about kinda’ caught me a bit off guard and I’m still trying to “process” it. Treating proven appendicitis in children without surgery – who would even try it the first time to see if it would work?
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Can we CURE AIDS? Well, pretty much always no. But hope for a cure has never been brighter than now, with two infants well on their way to a cure – one of them now three years old, if you can believe it, and disease free off meds.
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You take the most addictive substance found in tobacco, sit in a dark room with your scheming buddies and find a way to deliver it straight to a “mark” while circumventing the law – what else do you think you would get besides a brazen SCAM? E-cigarettes!
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Here’s an interesting bit of data for you – an actual result to prove the effectiveness of a law that was passed. Really, how often do we ever get proof of what legislators manipulate us into doing?
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As they did in 1977, 1981, and 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics has completed an extensive review of everything we’ve learned in the past 14 years and re- re- re- re-affirmed its policy on trampoline use by children: Don’t let them do it! It’s way too dangerous for recreational use by children.
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Besides probing around in ears, for a pediatrician, feeling an infants cranial sutures (soft spot) and checking an infants hips for dysplasia comes about as second nature to them as breathing air.
I even find myself doing it subconsciously when somebody shows me their baby at church (more…)