Recently added articles from Pediatrics for Parents:
In defense of vaccines--Part II.
Jul 01, 2009; ... In Part I, I talked about the anti-vaccination movement and tried to debunk some of the popular reasons people are against vaccinating their child. In this segment, I am going to take a brief tour of the childhood vaccines and review the morbidity and mortality caused by ...
New treatment for hemangiomas.(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Serendipity can lead to some useful treatments. In this is the case it's a new treatment for hemangiomas. Hemangiomas are vascular abnormalities that usually appear on infants' faces. They are red, sometimes flat and sometime raised. They grow as the child gets older. Sometimes ...
Sleep disturbance and cognition.(In the Literature: Brief Summaries and Comments on Articles from Medical Literature)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009 ... The Question: Could sleep disturbances be the cause of significant emotional and cognitive immaturity? The Study: The sleep patterns of fifty Israeli children who were judged by school officials unready to be promoted from kindergarten to first grade were compared to those of 98 ...
Diaper changes and UTIs.(In the Literature: Brief Summaries and Comments on Articles from Medical Literature)(urinary tract infections)
Jul 01, 2009 ... The Question: Is there an association between urinary tract infections (UTIs) in infants and how often their diapers are changed? The Study: Infants two to 30 months old with a temperature of 100.4[degrees]F or greater were tested for having a UTI. Of the 128 in the study, 32 ...
Tylenol overdose.(Children in Hospitals)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Christie is a 13-year-old average American girl and, for a time, everything seemed to be going great for her. She was in a school she liked and was doing well. She had a boyfriend, not a serious thing, but enough so she could tell her friends she was no longer "single." And she had become ...