Contemporary Pediatrics Newsletter

To view this email as a web page, click here.

It takes a team to care for kids with special health needs

The pediatric medical home must offer more familial, social, and psychosocial support to help children with special healthcare needs to thrive.

Find out more

Promote physical literacy to combat inactivity

A generation of inactive children is headed toward a lifetime of preventable pathologies unless clinicians enact a fundamental shift in attitudes toward exercise and physical activity.

Find out more

Girl’s hands shrivel when exposed to water

A 16-year-old girl presents to the clinic for acne follow-up and mentions that her palms wrinkle significantly after only a few minutes of immersion in water. She is otherwise well and has no significant past medical history.

What’s the diagnosis?

Help overcome hesitancy to immunize

Upgrade crucial communication and immunization skills with a new training course—the REACH Certificate in Immunization from the medical assistant certification specialists, AMT.

Online • Rigorous • CE credit

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Positives and negatives of digital media for children

4 tools to frame conversations about vaccination

Don’t rule out sports for children with bleeding disorders

CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO

How did prescription guidelines for pneumonia change behaviors?

For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics that examined how well children's and non-children's hospitals adopted the 2011 guidelines for prescriptions written for community-acquired pneumonia treatment.

This is a post-only, outbound email. Please do not reply to this email as we will be unable to respond to your reply. Please use the links provided if you have questions or concerns regarding this email or your subscription.