Tag: children
member name: Claire McCarthy, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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September 25, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
These days, I’m doing something in my pediatric practice that I didn’t plan on doing: I’m giving medications to children with attention problems.
When I started working in pediatrics . . .
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July 24, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
We hear about the epidemic of childhood obesity on the news so much these days that it’s easy to stop paying attention. We hardly listen when they tell us, yet again, about the scary statistics. . . .
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March 18, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
My parental resolution for this year is to do a better job of talking about sex with my children.
It's not that I've done a bad job—at least I don't think I have. I'm a pediatrician, . . .
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September 23, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
When my eldest, Michaela, was a toddler (she’s 17 now), I felt ahead of the game when it came to potty training. After all, I was a pediatrician. A brand new pediatrician, perhaps, but I’d learned . . .
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November 28, 2007 10:19 AM EST --
The recent news coverage about the lead paint on toys has made me think of a conversation I once had with a woman I’d always thought of as a sensible person and a great mom. She told me . . .
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November 25, 2008 02:41 PM EST --
I was looking through this month’s Pediatrics , the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and two articles caught my eye. One showed that exposure to violence in the media was linked with . . .
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May 20, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
It's a sad commentary on our society that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had to issue a report reminding parents and doctors that it's important for children to play.
The report, . . .
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July 22, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
Most people pick their pediatrician based on recommendations (and, these days, based on who their insurance will cover). After all, if they are recommended, they must be good, right? Generally, yes. . . .
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