Ari Brown, MD, Pediatrician and author of 2 books, “Baby 411 – Clear Answers and Smart Advice for Your Baby’s First Year” and “Toddler 411”, talks about the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Roughly a third of caregivers do not use albuterol properly when their child has an asthma exacerbation, according to a report in the…
Tanya Remer Altmann, MD, FAAP, Pediatrician, discusses her new book “Mommy Calls” which answers parents top 101 questions about babies and tells parents when to call the pediatrician,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In teenagers who are morbidly obese, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) can significantly improve or and even reverse the metabolic syndrome, according to…
Richard Alan Hopper, MD, Division Chief of Plastic Surgery and Surgical Director of the Craniofacial Program at Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center, discusses advanced imaging techniques.…
David Ciccolella, MD, Associate Professor at Temple University in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, talks about National Asthma Education and Prevention Program’s updated guidelines for…
Elizabeth Szalay, MD, Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of New Mexico, discusses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in children in the USA. Only 16% of children in…
Alan Greene, MD, FAAP, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, makes the case for doctors to provide meaningful information so that patients leave an…
Kathleen M. Stoessel, MD, Director Medical Retina Sub-Section, Yale Eye Center, discusses the impetus to screen for the retinopathy of prematurity, a disorder of developing retinal blood vessels…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Waist size and body mass index are independently associated with sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in school-age children, according to research in the June…