AAP shifts focus for managing child obesity

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has unveiled new recommendations for pediatricians treating children and adolescents who have become obese. How have they changed?.

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Committee addresses vaccine confidence

A federal committee has met to tackle one of the biggest issues with vaccines: parental confidence. What's their plan?

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Nonspecific abdominal pain

A retrospective investigation in 375 children with nonspecific abdominal pain (AP) found that most do not receive a diagnosis, many have persistent pain, and only a few are given a functional AP diagnosis. What happens next?

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Prediabetes or T2D?

Evidence-based support for breastfeeding

July 14, 2015

CONTEST

Can you haiku?

For some pediatricians, the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program has sparked fury, but can it spark poetry? Here's your chance to channel your angst and amperage into 3 lines, 17 syllables, of verse about MOC.

Send us your best 5-7-5 syllable haiku. We’ll pick the most creative and immortalize it—even award a suitable prize!

So rant, roar, preach, or praise, but ever so precisely. Here—we'll even get you started:

CME sufficed.
MOC's CME on steroids—
Follow the money.

Send yours to cradwan@advanstar.com

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