Contemporary Pediatrics Newsletter

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What's behind this infant's tight, shiny membrane?

After a cesarean delivery at 30 weeks, a 1430-gram premature female neonate was noted to have generalized thick, dark brown scale forming a tight membrane over her entire skin surface. Her mother was a healthy 19-year-old gravida 1 with normal prenatal screening ultrasound and laboratory studies. Family history did not reveal any congenital malformations or genetic disorders.

What's the diagnosis?

Strategies to minimize liability risk in pediatric practice

Given the crucial role pediatricians play in the health of children and in the US healthcare system in general, it is vitally important that pediatric practices understand what the actual legal obligations and risks are for providing pediatric services.

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Top 10 apps for pediatrics

The iTunes App Store and Google Play list thousands of medical applications for mobile devices. Here are Dr. Andrew Schuman's top 10 apps that he finds to be most useful, and you might, too.

Discover which ones can help you

HAVE YOU READ THESE?

Medication or placebo to prevent migraine?

Recurrent brown spots in an infant girl

CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO

For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a recent study published in Pediatrics that looked at the connections between maternal and paternal obesity and childhood development issues.

DIGITAL EDITION

Factoring the metabolic X syndrome

Metabolic X syndrome is a multisystem disease that requires screening, counseling, assessment, and treatment for a wide variety of metabolic problems.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

AZ - Children's Medical Center

ID - Saltzer Medical Group

New video app reviews on Medgizmos.com

Video reviews of 3 of Dr. Schuman's top 10 apps including Dr. Bart Schmitt's SymptomMD, an app for parents to use before they call your office or answering service!

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