Word: pediatricians
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Snyder was not so sure. "I'm an optimist. Why would evolution have been parsimonious in depriving the human brain of the power of self-healing? I was a pediatrician before I became a neuroscientist. As a pediatrician, I was impressed by how much plasticity there really must be in the human brain. Pediatricians know that damage to the infant brain doesn't have the same outcome as damage to the adult brain. If a newborn has a stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally...
...before abandoning "co-sleeping," which is common among several minority groups and increasingly encouraged by pediatricians, parents should note that the study has been heavily criticized for its methodology. It?s not clear, for instance, how many children died from accidental suffocation by a parent who was drunk or drugged. William Sears, a California pediatrician who recommends the practice, told the New York Times that he warns parents using alcohol or drugs not to bring their children to bed. Obese parents should also be particularly cautious, he says...
...shows, as Amazon extends its knowledgeable-storekeeper role to the new product offerings. Just as kindly advice from former Rolling Stone editors already suggests the essential music CDs every jazz or drum and bass lover should own, there are pointers on educational toys from Dr. Penelope Leach, a pediatrician and child-rearing expert Amazon has brought in. Amazon head Jeff Bezos also spoke Monday about expanding the new buying guides in the electronics area into the kind of full-fledged, independent product testing that Consumer Reports offers. MORE...
...American pediatrician Benjamin Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care...
...they raise critical questions for any woman who tests positive. Should she undertake a pre-emptive strike against possible cancer with radical measures like mastectomy and chemotherapy? And if so, will insurers pick up the tab? In the absence of any firm reimbursement policies, says Dr. Ellen Clayton, a pediatrician and lawyer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., "I think you'd have to be nuts to let anybody know [about these genes...