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What’s causing your young patient’s hip pain?
Diagnosing hip pain—which is increasingly common in children and adolescents—can be a daunting task, unless you know what to look for. These tips...
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Give your sports physicals a performance boost
A new evidence-based guideline can help you improve your approach to the preparticipation physical. Two downloadable forms can streamline the...
Clinical Inquiries
What’s the best approach to diagnosing food allergies in infants?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: A WELL-DESIGNED ORAL FOOD CHALLENGE (OFC) is the most reliable diagnostic test for infants whose clinical history and...
Clinical Inquiries
How useful are genital exams during boys’ sports physicals?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: EXAMINATION MAY BE USEFUL to identify hernia but not testicular cancer. Insufficient evidence exists to recommend for or...
Practice Alert
Your guide to the new pneumococcal vaccine for children
Since PCV7 (Prevnar) became available in 2000, rates of invasive pneumococcal disease have dropped sharply in the United States. Now, an expanded...
PURLs
How best to help kids lose weight
An aggressive approach—paired with medication for older kids—can help obese youngsters successfully slim down.
Applied Evidence
A better future for baby: Stemming the tide of fetal alcohol syndrome
These strategies can help you recognize an infant impaired with FAS. Screening tools like TWEAK can help you spot mothers at risk.
Clinical Inquiries
Does lowering a fever >101°F in children improve clinical outcomes?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: IT DEPENDS ON WHICH OUTCOMES YOU LOOK AT. Treating fever significantly increases comfort, activity, feeding, and fluid...
Clinical Inquiries
How should you treat a child with flat feet?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: THAT DEPENDS on whether the pes planus (flatfoot) is flexible or rigid. Flexible flatfoot (FFF)—an arch that is flat only...
Applied Evidence
Test your skills: A worsening rash
A 5-year-old boy has a rash on his legs and says it hurts to walk. What’s your diagnosis?