Pediatrics

Giving Mothers a Very Special Gift

Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Unaids, Pepfar, Mothers2mothers, Aids, Global Plan, Mothers Day Every Day, Global Health, Antiretroviral Treatment, HIV Cure, Maternal Health Africa, Hiv Infections, Public Health, Hiv, Global Maternal Health, Health Systems, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Mothers Day, White Ribbon Alliance, Mothers, HIV Prevention, Maternal and Child Health, Health Care, Blc, Rwanda, Antiretroviral Drugs, Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission, Born Hiv-Free, One, Pediatrics, Children's Health, Impact News

What is the greatest gift we can give a mother this Mother's Day? There are many answers, but one is a healthy life for her and her child. This Mother's Day, let's sharpen our resolve to ensure mothers everywhere have children who are born HIV-free.

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Pacifier Relief for Mom In Time For Mother's Day

Leigh Vinocur, M.D. | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Breast Feeding, Pediatrics, Motherhood, Are-Pacifiers-Bad, Mother's Day, Health, Non-Nutritive Sucking, Parents News

A new study brings great news for us guilt-ridden moms who used pacifiers to calm our kids.

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Earth Week is for Mothers

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Earth, House of Representatives, Carcinogen, Healthy, Party, Green, Jenna Elfman, Pediatrics, Bpa, Kelly Preston, Laila Ali, Soothing, Sugar, P&G, Parents News

Earth Week started Sunday and there's nothing more powerful than moms doing their part for the Earth.

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Watching Lives Crash In Slow-motion: A Pediatrician's Perspective On Youth Arrests

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Youth Arrests, At-Risk Youth, Juvenile Delinquency, Pediatrics, Child Poverty, Youth Crime, Delinquency Rate, Parents News

By age 23, 1 in 3 youth in the U.S. has been arrested for a non-traffic offense. To those who say that we can't afford to spend money on this now, or that government should stay out of people's lives, I say this: You can't escape 1 in 3.

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Is It All Just Hype? Sexting Among Teens Isn’t As Prevalent As Previously Reported

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Prevalence, Sexting, Teens, Pediatrics, David Finkelhor, Sexual Images, Prevalence and Characteristics of Youth Sexting; A National Study, Kimberly Mitchell, Janis Wolak, Lisa Jones, University of New Hampshire, Parents News

NEW YORK -- The practice of teenagers engaged in "sexting" is far less widespread than previously reported, according to a new study released early Mo...

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Generation Rx: Is Overmedication Endangering Our Kids' Health?

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Generation RX, Antibiotics, Pediatrics, Prescriptions, Children Medication, Doctors Antibiotics, Antiobiotics, Overmedication, Over-Medicated Children, Over-Medication, Children Overmedication, Parents News

These new studies once again underscore the necessity for us as parents to communicate with our pediatricians and not be afraid to ask questions when a prescription is offered.

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Modern Pediatrics Needs Health Care to Evolve

Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Health Care, Parents News

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.

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Pediatrician Visits Are Too Short

The Huffington Post | Sara Gaynes | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Kids Doctor Visits Length, Video, Kids Doctor Visits Too Short, Healthy Kids, Toddlers, Kids Doctor Visits How Long, Pediatrics, Tweens, Doctor Visits Length, Parents-Childrens-Healthy-Lifestyle, Parents News

Is your child spending enough time with their doctor? Possibly not. Nearly 80 percent of parents say their pediatrician spends less than 20 minutes wi...

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Family Going Veggie? How To Make Sure They Get The Right Nutrients

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Zinc, Vegetarian, Children, Nutrition, Slidepollajax, Protein, Vitamin, Pediatrics, American, Academy, Parents-Childrens-Healthy-Lifestyle, Healthy-Kids, Healthy Living News

While it's been well established that a vegetarian diet can be healthful and adequate in nutrition, children and teens do require age-appropriate intakes of certain nutrients.

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Proposed Circumcision Ban Is Bad For Religion And Medicine

Joshua Stanton | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Religious Freedom, Religion, San Francisco, Circumcision, Medicine, Pediatrics, Child Welfare, Human Rights, Children, Parental-Rights, Judaism, Religion News

Most American Jews and Muslims are circumcised for religious reasons, and as many as three quarters of all American males are circumcised medically. Clearly not everyone is listening to circumcision's detractors.

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Health Care Reform: We Need to Reframe the Questions

Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Pediatrics, Health Care, Home News

As a nation, even in this recession, we can claim remarkable prosperity relative to the rest of the world. Nowhere is this truer, incidentally, than in the highly profitable private health care industries.

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Changing my Medical Practice to Make Room for A Vision

Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Adoption Medicine, Pediatrics, Adoption, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Orphans, Impact News

I am leaving primary care pediatric medicine to pursue a larger calling, to help a lost generation of children living without families in desperate settings.

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Finding the 'Right' Doctor for Your Allergic Child

Susan Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pediatrics, Parenting, Child Allergies, Children's Allergies, Allergy Doctors, Child Doctors, Children's Doctors, Home News

Thanks to the Internet, doctors have fallen from the grace of the All-Knowing and thanks to our health care system many parents cannot access the kind of care they would like for their children.

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Confessions of a Worn-Out Pediatrician

Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Health Care, Home News

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.

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Our Child's Pain: A Sleeping Enemy Stirs

Jim Moret | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chronic Pain, Pediatrics, Crps, Injuries, Rsd, Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, Home News

It's been nearly two years since our son's debilitating and excruciating pain in his left foot was first diagnosed as CRPS, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, also known as RSD, Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy.

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Amy Baxter, Buzzy: 27 Million And Counting

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Lauren Drell | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Diabetic Kids, Video, Medical Devices, National American Academy of Pediatrics, Bee Stings, Buzzy, Pediatrics, Amy Baxter, Emergency Room, Diabetic Children, Diabetes, 27 Million and Counting, Small Business Video, Home News

Starting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the...

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Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carpets, Kabul, Politics, War, Health Care, Afghanistan, World, Pediatrics, Physicians, Humanitarian Aid, World News

I recently assisted in a surgical procedure in Kabul on a young boy. The chief surgeon was an Afghan man. I didn't know how he would respond to a woman as our fierce Asian eyes met over surgical masks.

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Racing Safely to the Finish Line? Kids, Competition, and Injuries

Hilary Levey Friedman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pediatrics, Peter Lenz, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Athletic Concussions, United States Grand Prix Racers Union, Childrens Health, Afterschool Sports, Childrens Sports, Healthy Living News

Tongues have wagged and hands have been wrung since the tragic death of thirteen-year-old Peter Lenz during a practice session for a motorcycle competition this past August.

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Pakistanis & Afghans: Brothers in the Dysfunctional Family of Muslim Countries

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pashtun, Pakistan, Refugees, Immigration, U.S., Foreign Policy, Pediatrics, Afghanistan Children, Afghanistan War, World News

I came to Afghanistan with the expectation that I would be able to play the "Muslim card" and build alliances easily. Not exactly so.

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Fatalism Is Contagious in Afghanistan

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Health, Children, Education, War, Health Care, Afghanistan, Residency, Pediatrics, World News

Afghanistan has the third highest under-five mortality rate in the world, with only Angola and Sierra Leone surpassing its abysmal numbers. One in five Afghan children do not reach their fifth birthday.

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Virginia Woolf's Spirit Lives in Afghanistan

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pediatrics, Afghanistan, Global Health, Virginia Woolf, Vietnam, Medicine, War, Tet Offensive, World News

The question we must ask ourselves is whether our presence in Afghanistan will harm or hurt women, not whether we can use them as an excuse for an ongoing military assault of Afghanistan.

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Decisions for the Babies of Kabul

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children, Pakistan, War, Hospitals, Kabul, Cure, Mortality, Pediatrics, Genetics, Afghanistan, Global Health, Health Care, World News

Under the faces hardened by a life full of adversity, there is a keen realization amongst Afghans that life is provisional. For every 10,000 people, there are two -- count them, two -- physicians.

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Crown Jewels or Spoils of War?

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Relief, Kabul, Doctors, Global Health, Children, International, Colonialism, War, Aid Workers, Cure, Health Care, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Pediatrics, World News

Many of the colonized people in the world share a belief: that when our colonizers leave, they intentionally leave behind a chaotic situation destined for more conflict, thereby ensuring post-colonial strife.

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An American Doctor Packing Scrubs for Afghanistan

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doctor, Muslim, Global Health, CURE International, War, Female, Afghanistan, American, International Health, Relief Work, Physician, Pediatrics, Humanitarian Aid, World News

After many experiences in global health in Lebanon, Egypt, Israel and Palestine, and the Balkans, I am older, but only mildly wiser. I am now plunging head first into a medical trip to Afghanistan working with CURE International.

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Too Often Parents Care More About the Object Than the Child

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Pediatrics, Failure, Doctors, Parenting, Children, Family, Jack Canfield, Actions, Kids, Words, Raising Children, Ramon Resa MD, Learning, Healthy Living News

Jack Canfied's recent article in the Huffington Post reminded me of a recent post I submitted on words and actions and how they affect children. All t...

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