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A healthy 12-year-old boy was diagnosed with pityriasisrosea 6 months ago, and new lesions, which are occasionally a little itchy, keep appearing.
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From 2009 to 2012, the number of babies born in the United States with neonatal abstinence syndrome —symptoms of opioid withdrawal —almost doubled, pushing associated hospital costs to $1.5 billion, a new study reports. Find out what's behind the increase |
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Adolescents of all ages have been getting less sleep during the past 2 decades than teenagers in earlier years, according to a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 272,000 youngsters from 1991 to 2012. How much less sleep are they getting? |
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In Contemporary Pediatrics' exclusive interview with Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, senior vice president, University of South Florida (USF) Health, and dean, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, we asked what steps physicians can take to impact the sobering statistic of 1 in 9 US infants still being born at 37 or fewer weeks' gestation. Hear what he believes were the factors that led to the improvement and what strategies he thinks can be implemented in those states still receiving poor or failing grades.
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