Pulse

Briefs

Minnesota’s immunization registry, children’s health care average at best, talking to teens

The Power of Books

Physicians are discovering that books can be valuable tools for monitoring their patients’ development.

Pain Reliever

Stefan Friedrichsdorf thinks physicians need to do more to alleviate children’s pain.

Read This and Call Me in the Morning

Three Minnesota doctors have written books to teach kids about health and health care.

Quality Rounds

Baby Monitors

By Scott D. Smith

Minnesota is borrowing a page from Vermont on how to improve the quality of pediatric care.

Perspective

Caring for Lucy

By Therese Zink, M.D., M.P.H.

A girl’s blindness is a red herring for the larger issues affecting her.

End Notes

A Day in the Life of a Pediatrician


March 2009 | Table of Contents

Cover Story

Living Proof

By Kate Ledger

Minnesota’s newborn screening program is considered one of the best in the nation. What’s important to parents, however, is that it is detecting rare-but-treatable conditions.

Commentary

Hib Returns

By Anne Edwards, M.D.

Let’s stop preventable childhood diseases from re-emerging.

Ending an Epidemic: Physicians’ Role in Primary Caries Prevention

By Amos Deinard, M.D., M.P.H., and Brenda Johnson, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Physicians need to care for a child’s entire body, including the mouth.

Two Birds, One Stone: Cover the Uninsured by Fixing Medicare

By Victor M. Sandler, M.D.

Eliminating reimbursement for medical care that does not help patients is the solution to curbing health care costs.

Clinical and Health Affairs

Transitioning Adolescents to Adult Care: Putting Theory into Practice

By Sheldon Berkowitz, M.D., FAAP

 

Pediatric Depression: Issues and Treatment Recommendations

By Kathryn Cullen, M.D., Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Ph.D., and Sanjiv Kumra, M.D.

 

Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Update on a Common Genetic Condition

By Elizabeth Siqveland, M.S., R.N., C.N.P., and Dinel Pond, M.S., C.G.C.

 

Editor's Note

Little Bodies, Big Challenges

 

MMA Viewpoint

Proceed with Caution in Developing Baskets of Care

 

Letters

MMA News

Doctors at the Capitol
Bad Info Causes Prescribing Confusion
Rx: Read to Your Children
Physicians Testify against Budget Proposal
Bill Would Add Dental Mandate

Tracking Reform

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