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 …
Author: Erin Digitale
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 …
Study says sharing a bed with baby may lead to more breastfeeding
Should parents share a bed with their infant? The American Academy of Pediatrics clearly says "no" (.pdf), citing instances of infants being accidentally smothered to …
Guatemalan syphilis study: NIH and CDC directors' commentary
Today the directors of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a joint commentary on the 1946-48 US …
Food stamps and sodas: Stanford pediatrician weighs in
Earlier this week, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a controversial modification to the food stamp program in his city: He wants to make …
New insight into asthma-air pollution link
Air pollution - whether from diesel exhaust in a big city or cooking-fire smoke in a developing nation - is bad for children with asthma. …
Parenting a child with pervasive developmental delay
Richard Holloway, PhD, associate dean for student affairs at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has an extraordinarily moving essay in today's new issue of Archives …
A new approach to elusive diagnoses
It's been just over a year since my favorite aunt died of pancreatic cancer. I've been thinking about her a lot this week - about …