by PediaBlog | Aug 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
It should be obvious to anyone reading a pediatric blog that drinking alcohol during pregnancy is a great big no-no. Nearly three years ago, we learned the following from the American Academy of Pediatrics: > Alcohol-related birth defects and developmental...
by PediaBlog | May 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Two recent studies showcase once more why children are the ones most often impacted by bad adult behavior. Last month, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse released a report on the young victims of accidental poisonings from legal and illegal drugs. In...
by PediaBlog | Jul 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
The good news in the graph above is that U.S. teenage motor vehicle crash deaths have declined dramatically over the past 40 years. Still, motor vehicle accidents remain the number one cause of unintentional death in the pediatric population. (The most common...
by PediaBlog | Jun 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
A group of American and Russian researchers asked 4,000 U.S. seventh- and eighth-graders and their parents about lying and alcohol consumption. Not surprisingly, families in which parent-child trust was lacking or absent had greater tendencies for teenagers to...
by PediaBlog | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
These days I suspect most of us will take good news anywhere we can find it. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report a positive development for teen health: During 1991–2007, the prevalence of...
