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...found that people identified having a child as their primary motivation for protecting the environment; 91% said the most important reason to recycle is the impact it will have on their children's future. In fact, new parents are the leading edge of environmental awareness, says Alan Greene, a pediatrician at Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and author of Raising Baby Green. "I've seen a dramatic increase in parents taking environmental responsibility for their children in the past 15 years...
...study conducted at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and released Saturday analyzed data on more than 15,000 children in Ohio, and found that kids who did not have continuous health insurance were 14 times less likely to have regular visits with a pediatrician than those who did. They were also three times less likely to fill prescriptions for necessary medication. "These unmet medical needs directly put a child's health at risk," says Gerry Fairbrother, a researcher on health policy at Cincinnati Children...
After being asked to step out while a pediatrician conducted a typical physical examination for his teenage son, John Doe No. 5—allegedly an anonymous victim of sexual abuse—became overwhelmed with emotion as the dark memories of his own physical examinations as a child came flooding back...
Participants in the studies were given vitamin D supplements from birth onward, for a variable time period, and were tracked for some 15 to 30 years, according to Dr. Christos Zipitis, a pediatrician with the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and lead author of the new paper, which appears online this week in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Types and doses of vitamin D supplements varied, and were not always reported, but Zipitis says supplementation was roughly 10 mcg, or 400 I.U., of vitamin D daily - the amount typically found in infant multivitamins. Based on data from three case-control...
...piece of information is that everybody who was depressed was also burned out, whereas the reverse is not true,” said Amy M. Fahrenkopf, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Boston and the lead author of the study. “Residency does lead to the state of being burned out and for some people, that’s a trigger that leads to depression...