Word: pediatrician
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...pediatrician's office has been doing a brisk business in Gardasil, but a lot of parents are deeply uncomfortable with it. Texas Governor Rick Perry found that out last month when he tried to make the vaccine mandatory for girls entering sixth grade, an idea that many Texans felt contradicted the state's abstinence-only message in sex education. Since then, Merck, which makes Gardasil, has stopped lobbying states to require the vaccine for school. No other vaccine mandated for school targets a microbe that is spread mainly through...
...alone in their efforts. Dr. Edith Mohapi was born in Lesotho and left when she was 17 to pursue advanced studies and medical school. She returned last year to run the clinic in Maseru and was joined earlier this summer by her daughter Dr. Lineo Thahane, also a pediatrician and one of the first Pediatric AIDS Corps members. The nurses, social workers and other staff are also from Lesotho...
...parents, the uncertainty lasted for the first three years of their son's life. Asher's older brother Sam, now 10, has always been pretty healthy. But a couple of months after he was born, Asher started having trouble feeding and was spotting his diapers with blood. The pediatrician decided he had an allergy to milk. Then, at 9 months, he couldn't crawl or sit up. The diagnosis this time was hypotonia, a vague term that basically means "poor muscle tone." With physical therapy, Asher walked at 17 months, but then a month later he caught a cold...
...Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hamilton opened the discussion by asking the panelists to explore the effects of the lesser-known conflict in South Sudan on the current crisis in Darfur. Rev. Gloria White Hammond, a pediatrician in Boston who has visited the region eight times, said that the active involvement of Christian conservatives in humanitarian efforts in South Sudan was “helpful in having a ready-made constituency for advocacy” when the situation in Darfur worsened. Congressman Michael E. Capuano, a Democrat...
...babies may be too undeveloped to make a cry. Rarely, when the condition of a mother or baby is dire, nurses and doctors may used hushed tones. And occasionally, a baby may look "funny" to the delivery room staff, silencing their jubilant announcements and necessitating the opinion of a pediatrician...