The Health Benefits of Recess for Kids
When adults look back on school, they often remember more than lessons and worksheets. They remember recess — the playground, movement, friendships, laughter and freedom. Yet in many schools today, re...
18 Elo 27min
Childhood Leukemia in Primary Care
Some of the most serious diagnoses in pediatrics begin with common pediatric symptoms. A child comes in looking pale or with a febrile illness. They've been more tired than usual. Maybe they're bruisi...
11 Elo 29min
Pediatric Tick Bite Management
Tick bites used to be a seasonal nuisance, something you might mention briefly at a well visit in late spring. But that's no longer the reality. With emergency department visits for tick bites climbin...
4 Elo 40min
Evaluating Precocious Puberty
Puberty doesn't always follow the expected timeline. What happens when it shows up ahead of schedule? For pediatricians, the early appearance of breast development, pubic hair or accelerated growth c...
28 Heinä 27min
First 1,000 Days of Brain Building
A child's future begins long before the first words, first steps or even the first smile. In the span of just 1,000 days, billions of neural connections are formed, and the foundation for lifelong hea...
21 Heinä 30min
When is a Curve a Sign of Scoliosis?
The human spine is designed to support, balance and adapt through a lifetime of growth. But what happens when that growth starts to bend in an unexpected direction? Scoliosis often emerges during peri...
14 Heinä 28min
Helping Parents With Discipline
When most people hear the word "discipline", they think consequences, punishments or stopping bad behavior in the moment. But what if we've been thinking about discipline too narrowly? We are refram...
7 Heinä 38min
Making Sense of BRUE
It's one of the most unsettling calls a pediatrician can get: a baby who turned blue, stopped breathing or suddenly went limp, only to appear completely normal moments later. Welcome to the clinical g...
30 Kesä 18min
