February 29, 2012 – 10:36 am
Dr Deena Chisolm joins Dr Mike in the PediaCast Studio this week to talk about health literacy. How do parents, teens, and children consume and use health information in the 21st Century? Can parents ignite a spirit of self-discovery in their teens? What electronic tools are teens using today? What tools SHOULD they use? We [...]
February 22, 2012 – 3:39 pm
Join Dr Mike for more news parents can use and answers to your questions! This week’s topics include finger foods, moving from house to house, second-hand smoke exposure in cars, bed wetting, cool mist humidifiers, head lice, and toddler behavior revisited. Topics Finger Foods Frequent House Moves Second-Hand Smoke Exposure in Cars Bed Wetting Cool [...]
February 15, 2012 – 2:28 pm
Dr. Kim McBride joins Dr Mike in the PediaCast Studio to discuss the genetics of congenital heart disease. We explore hypoplastic left heart syndrome, aortic stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta. Evidence is mounting of a strong genetic basis for these disorders, and we’ll take a look at what this means for early diagnosis and [...]
February 8, 2012 – 4:08 pm
Join Dr Mike as he covers news parents can use and adds three scientific studies to our research round-up. Topics this week include Vitamin D and its link to depression, dissolvable tobacco and nicotine (bad!), flavored cigars (also bad!), milk consumption and colon cancer, food marketing (an update), folic acid and language development, Mozart and [...]
By Dr. Mike
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Posted in PediaCast
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Tagged colon cancer, concussion, depression, dissolvable nicotine, dissolvable tobacco, epilepsy, flavored cigars, folic acid, food marketing, language development, milk consumption, mozart, vitamin d
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February 1, 2012 – 11:13 am
Join Dr Mike as he covers news parents can use and answers listener questions from the PediaCast Studio. Topics this week include: vaccines for parents – should mom and dads get shots at the pediatrician’s office? Plus “pseudo-outbreaks” of whooping cough, handwriting and academic success, the relationship between asthma and infant growth, discrepancies in child-abuse [...]
By Dr. Mike
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Posted in PediaCast
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Tagged academic success, asthma, baby cereal, child abuse, donated breast milk, handwriting, immunizations, infant growth, pain tolerance, parents, pertussis, self-esteem, vaccines, whooping cough
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