Pediatrics Experts & Viewpoints

Crying Babies: How Should They Be Assessed? Medical history and a physical are the keys to identifying serious underlying conditions in crying infants.
Viewpoint, July 2009
Effect of Maternal Psychopathology on Behavioral Problems in Preschool Children Exposed to Terrorism Is maternal psychopathology related to behavioral problems in children exposed to terrorism?
Viewpoint, July 2009
Mental Health Issues in Pregnancy and Options for Treatment Lean about the Edinburgh scale, risk factors for pregnancy-related depression, when to use psychotropic meds during pregnancy, and more.
Expert Column, July 2009
Early Transition to Oral Antibiotics or IV Therapy in Children With Uncomplicated Osteomyelitis A large retrospective study compares outcomes of children who received a prolonged IV course vs those of children who had early transition to oral antibiotics.
Viewpoint, July 2009
Stimulant Use Linked to Sudden Death in Pediatric Patients In his latest video blog, Dr. Robert Findling comments on a new study that reveals a significant association between the use of stimulants and sudden unexplained death in children and adolescents.
Commentary, July 2009
We All Need a Little More D. A New Report on The Sunshine Vitamin Sandra Fryhofer, MD, reviews the new report on vitamin D from the AMA Council on Science and Public Health and warns us that 30% of the American public may be deficient.
Commentary, July 2009
RSV in Young Children: How Many Cases Are Treated in the Outpatient Setting? A new study sheds light on the percentage of RSV cases seen in emergency department and office visits.
Viewpoint, June 2009
Measuring Medication Adherence Among Children With Asthma Education may not be enough to improve adherence to medication refills for children with asthma.
Viewpoint, June 2009
As Novel H1N1 Influenza Reaches Pandemic Level, Public Health Preparedness Efforts Build A multidisciplinary expert panel on Human Swine Flu (H1N1) and Novel Influenza Pandemics held at NYAS drew attention to worldwide, national, and local surveillance and preparedness efforts.
Expert Column, June 2009
Autism Medication Found to be Ineffectual in Treatment of Autistic Children In his latest video blog, Dr. Robert Findling reports on a NIH study that finds that citalopram is no better than placebo in treating autistic children with repetitive behavior.
Commentary, June 2009

POLL

A study published last month in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals primary care practices sometimes do not inform patients of abnormal lab results or do not keep a record of the patient being informed. About 1 of every 14 abnormal tests was not reported to the patient. How likely or not likely is this to happen in your practice?

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Early Transition to Oral Antibiotics or IV Therapy in Children With Uncomplicated Osteomyelitis A large retrospective study compares outcomes of children who received a prolonged IV course vs those of children who had early transition to oral antibiotics.
Viewpoint, July 2009

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