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 …
Author: Erin Digitale
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 …
What we can expect from the coming flu season
In this new Lucile Packard Children's Hospital video, Yvonne Maldonado, MD, the hospital's chief of infectious disease, discusses what's coming this flu season and provides …
Move over, Apgar score? Researchers design method to determine preemies' health risks
A new, non-invasive scoring system to predict poor health in premature babies could dramatically change how doctors treat fragile preemies. The method, announced today by …
Haiti earthquake relief by Packard Children's team
This new video from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital shows footage shot by a team of doctors and nurses who went to Haiti Feb. 2 - …
Should kids get cupcakes at school?
I've been reading a lot about childhood obesity this week, thanks in part to Michelle Obama's announcement of her "Let's Move" campaign aimed at reducing …