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Author: Erin Digitale
New guidelines for kids' participation in organized sports
Just in time for the start of your kids' spring sports, the April issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine contains new …
New research center aims to understand premature birth
The March of Dimes and the Stanford's medical school are today launching a new research center dedicated to understanding and preventing preterm birth. The new …
New hope for people with severe milk allergies
The big excitement at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding was a trip to the emergency room. Someone accidentally ate the wrong tortilla chip. We …
Surviving pediatric brain cancer
What happens after a medical crisis ends? What if the person who was ill is a child - someone who will carry the after-effects of …
Study may explain why "Back to Sleep" prevents SIDS
Like many modern infants, my little son has a bit of a flat spot on the back of his head. It's the product of our …
Big advance against a vicious pediatric brain tumor
New Stanford research is providing the first advance in 35 years toward treatment of a vicious pediatric brain tumor. A study appearing today in Proceedings …
Are Happy Meals illegal? A public health lawyer says, yes
San Francisco recently enacted strict nutrient guidelines for meals sold with toys, essentially banning McDonald's Happy Meals from the city. Though the actual legislation is …
One-in-a-million quadruplets heading home
Big changes start today for one Redwood City, Calif., family: They're welcoming home one of their four quadruplet girls born at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital …
One gift saves three young lives
Each time I write about an organ transplant, I'm reminded anew of the human impact of medical science. Over the last few weeks, as I've …
A TEDWomen talk on teens' reproductive health
tedxbayarea on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Adolescent medicine specialist Sophia Yen, MD, who treats patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, gave a presentation at the …
Measuring device alert for over-the-counter liquid meds
In the runny-nosed winters of my childhood, one of the highlights of getting sick was being dosed with a soup spoon of grape-flavored Dimetapp. When …
Doctors develop first standard-of-care guidelines for congenital muscular dystrophy
Four-year-old Sophie Kim of Sunnyvale, Calif. has a form of muscular dystrophy so rare that an experienced pediatric neurologist might see her diagnosis only once …
Obesity prevention in high-risk kids – challenging but worth it
Amid skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity and dire predictions for its consequences (this generation could be the first to experience an overall decline in life …
New NIH Images database: images from biomedical literature
The National Institutes of Health has just announced the launch of Images, a database of more than 2.5 million biomedical images culled from PubMed Central's …
Extra fructose, hidden in plain sight
Back in my grad school days, I hesitated to tell new acquaintances I was working on a PhD in nutrition. Disclosing that information led people …