Word: pediatrician
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...seven justices voided the 1985 contract by which Biochemist William Stern and his pediatrician wife Elizabeth had arranged to pay Mary Beth Whitehead $10,000 to bear a child fathered by him through artificial insemination. Under state adoption law and public policy, the court concluded, paying women to be surrogate mothers was "illegal, perhaps criminal, and potentially degrading to women." Wrote Chief Justice Robert Wilentz: "There are, in a civilized society, some things that money cannot...
...majority of recent victims have experienced only mild symptoms of strep throat, if any. Thus parents have not become alarmed until after the persistent fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller, chief pediatrician at New England Medical Center in Boston: "Parents will have to pay more attention to what appears to be a simple...
...videotape of a 7-hour visit of Nicole at his house on Jan. 1, 1986, when his fiance, her two daughters and his mother were present. He said it was following that visit that Mrs. LaLonde, who he refers to as "Ginger," took their child to a Beverly pediatrician for a gynecological exam...
...completed a two-year study of preschool exercise programs. "We feel that they are not necessary for normal development and in no way give children a head start," says Dr. Suzanne Haefele, a committee member. Besides, parents do a lot of the same things on their own, points out Pediatrician George Sterne of the Tulane Medical Center, such as bicycling their babies' legs or playing pat-a-cake when changing diapers. "Infants are going to exercise on their own unless you keep them in a closet," he notes. Older tots get ample exercise by fooling around in the backyard...
...leaves are generally brief and unpaid. This forces many women to return to work sooner than they would like and creates a huge demand for infant care, the most expensive and difficult child-care service to supply. The premature separation takes a personal toll as well, observes Harvard Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, heir apparent to Benjamin Spock as the country's pre-eminent guru on child rearing. "Many parents return to the workplace grieving...