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...Between swabbing a strep-ridden throat and assessing a jaundiced newborn, I was asked by my nurse how to counsel a parent who was upset by the sleeping habits of her six year old. For the last week, the child had refused to go to bed without his mom sleeping next to him and often awoke during the night, screaming for his mother to " kill it! " No amount of bribes had worked, and his lack of sleeping was affecting his days in kindergarten. He refused to go outside for recess and was withdrawn from his peers. After prescribing penicillin...
...results were, however, Gardasil may face its toughest challenge after it reaches the market. Public-health officials are considering adding the inoculation to the roster of shots that children receive before they become sexually active, since that's when the vaccine is most effective at preventing infection. Religious and parent groups, however, are concerned that Gardasil may encourage sex by promoting the idea that it's risk-free ?SHINGLES In Italy it's called St. Anthony's fire, a vivid description for the red, blistery and often painful rash that 1 million adults in the U.S. each year come...
...handful of engineers and a six-pack of Code Red. One open-source program, the truly excellent Web browser Firefox, has been downloaded 150 million times. SourceForge.net a website that coordinates open-source work, is currently host to almost 15,000 projects. Internet behemoth AOL, which shares a corporate parent with this magazine, open-sourced its instant-messaging service just last week...
...essay "Why I Dumped The Baby Doctor" [Feb. 27], Michelle Cottle argued that pediatricians should be more responsive to the concerns of nervous parents. As a nurse and mother for more than 25 years, I was dismayed by Cottle's account of her irrational fears. She traded a doctor who was very busy for a doctor who had plenty of time to develop a codependent relationship with a phobic parent. Her new doctor, whom she said she is seeing "about once a week," is taking advantage of a mother who apparently would rather spend time chatting with the baby doctor...
...Microsoft who are always coming up with ideas. I go off for a week every six months and read hundreds of papers from people who are telling me about big advances, and their ideas about things they think we should do. Take a simple concept. You're a parent and your kid is growing up. How do you collect all the photos, email, video, calendars- all those things-and make it so that sharing it with relatives or going back 10 years later and finding some neat moments are very easy to do? Obviously today's software lets...