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Mental health integration into pediatric primary care offers multiple benefits
SAN FRANCISCO – Dr. Jay Rabinowitz outlines the challenges, benefits, and process for integrating pediatric mental health care into your primary...
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Yes, pediatric practices can provide immunizations without going broke
Chip Hart offers advice on how pediatric practices can provide immunizations and make money.
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Topical crisaborole boosts quality of life in atopic dermatitis
VIENNA – Topical crisaborole 2% ointment twice a day was consistently associated with clinically meaningful quality of life improvement scores on...
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Body-size awareness linked with BMI decrease in obese children, teens
Body-size awareness was associated with a decrease in BMI among obese children and teens.
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Fatal measles complication occurs more often than realized
A fatal complication of measles known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, can develop years after measles infection and appears to...
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Selected liver-transplant patients thrive off immunosuppression
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Causes of recurrent pediatric pancreatitis start to emerge
MONTREAL – Once children have a first bout of acute pancreatitis, a second, separate episode of acute pancreatitis most often occurs in patients...
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Homeless youth and risk: Untangling role of executive function
New York
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New screen time guidelines address rapid changes in media environment
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new policies on children’s media use bring the recommendations into the 21st century.
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Obesity risk rises when kids aren’t active 1 hour a day
SAN FRANCISCO – The behavioral characteristic that correlated the most with obesity in school-age children was being active less than 1 hour per...
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Updated AAP safe sleep recs for infants reinforce life-saving messages
At sleep time, infants should share their parents’ bedroom on a separate sleep surface without bed sharing, should be placed on their backs on a...