Nowhere has modern pediatric care evolved more dramatically than in the arena of well-child care and preventive medicine. What has not evolved along with our scope of knowledge is our delivery system.
AP/The Huffington Post | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 09.14.2011
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York pediatrician charged with sexually abusing young female patients, including some who were secretly videotaped or photogra...
Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011
Going to a doctor we don't usually see is, according to our regular doctor, akin to taking our son to a back-alley quack who practices medicine with a dull knife and a lighter.
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — There are enough children's doctors in the United States, they just work in the wrong places, a new study finds. Some wealthy areas are ov...
Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
It has been several years since I decided to leave medicine, but people still ask me about it. The full truth has as much to do with our health care system and our culture as it does with me.
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
Over the years, I have noticed an increasing problem in many of my teen patients: sleep deprivation.
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011
CHICAGO — The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 percent of U.S. women fed their babies ...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.17.2011
Four to five percent (4-5%) of the adult population of America has ADHD. Even using the conservative figure, that's 12.4 million people - 50% more tha...
Yahoo! News | Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter | Posted 11.17.2011
Whatever the cause, it's clear that the number of children with food allergies has gone up 18 percent and the number seeking treatment for food allerg...
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
How can boys raised in an abusive environment learn any differently? It is nice to say we have to show them or teach them by example, but what example can we use?
Sheila Shayon | Posted 11.17.2011
And then it dawned on me -- laser sharp -- our whole system is vulnerable. In my own little corner of the world, I had stumbled over another truth at the root of our collective, unbridled greed.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011
I am through the looking glass, people. I have discovered a deep, dark secret of the utmost importance to our national security. This secret goes far...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A top government health official Thursday rejected pediatricians' calls for an immediate ban on over-the-counter cough and cold med...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Like any father, I wish I could take my son's place in all of life's harrowing rides, but I settle for what I can do: sit close, hold his hand, and tighten his buckle.
Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 12.20.2011