Pediatrics

The Benefits of Youth Sports
The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctor's Complete Guide for Parents
by Jordan D. Metzl, M.D., Carol Shookhoff, Ph.D.
Kids usually get the benefits they seek from sports and more. Kids need attention and respect (in that order), but they have few ways to get them. What is unique about sports is that they offer kids an arena where they can earn attention and respect

Do I Have To Vaccinate My Child?
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations
by Stephanie Cave, M.D., F. A.A.F.P., Deborah Mitchell
This question is being asked more and more often by parents as they hear and read about the association between vaccines and various serious health conditions. Although there are no federal mandates that force parents to have their children vaccinated

An Infant's Immune System
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations
by Stephanie Cave, M.D., F. A.A.F.P., Deborah Mitchell
Infants come into the world with antibodies they have gotten from their mother through the placenta. Infants who are breastfed continue to receive many important antibodies in the colostrum; the thick, yellowish premilk that is secreted during the first

The Normal Pattern of Growth: What Causes Children to Grow?
The Short Child: A Parents' Guide to the Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Growth Problems
by Paul Kaplowitz, M.D., Ph.D., Jeffrey Baron, M.D.
Do You Worry About Your Child's Growth? For the millions of parents concerned about their child's height, there is now an authoritative resource of comprehensive information to reassure and guide them in seeking help.

Introduction
Salt in Your Sock: and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies
by Lillian Beard, M.D., Linda Lee Small
MANY YEARS AGO, while I was advising a young mother on how to manage her baby's facial rash, I was surprised by a question from the baby's great-grandmother, who was in the exam room with us: "Ma 'dear," as she was called, piped up

“God, what's going on here?”
Up and Running : The Inspiring True Story of a Boy's Struggle to Survive and Triumph
by Mark Patinkin
Up and Running is a story about comebacks, about doctors who take on one of the most relentless of diseases, and parents who at first lose faith, then use it to will their child to live, even as they struggle with an unraveling marriage.

Pediatric Heart Surgery
Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
by Michael Ruhlman
Life and death at the Cleveland Clinic. Walk on Water offers a rare and dramatic glimpse into a world where the health of innocent children and the hopes of white-knuckled families rest in the hands of all-too-human doctors.

Avoiding Bedtime Battles So the Whole Family Sleeps Well
American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Sleep : Birth Through Adolescence
by George J. Cohen, M.D., The American Academy of Pediatrics
Sooner or later, almost every parent must deal with a child's sleeptime problems. In early infancy, the first task is to help your baby learn to sleep longer at night and stay awake for increasingly longer periods during the daytime.

Metabolic Programming: What it is, and what it can do for your child
Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six
by Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D., Melvin B. Heyman, M.D., Lisa Tracy
This book began in that moment 6 years ago, when I was that excited and puzzled mother-to-be. As a nutrition researcher, I have spent 20 years studying the importance of healthy food at all stages of life.

AD/HD: What It Is and Isn't
AD/HD: Helping Your Child: A Comprehensive Program to Treat Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorders at Home and in School
by Warren Umansky, Ph.D., Barbara Steinberg Smalley
Robert, a third-grader, walks to school most days. His school is no more than a five-minute trek from home, yet even when Robert leaves on time, he is often thirty minutes late. His classmates don't like Robert very much.

Emergencies
Your Child's Health : The Parents' One-Stop Reference Guide to: Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior Problems, and Healthy Development
by Barton D. Schmitt, M.D., FAAP
Emergencies: when to call your child's physician immediately, what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuries. Common Illnesses: when it's safe to treat your child at home, step-by-step instructions on dealing with fever

Foreword by Dr. Phil McGraw
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a major challenge for many families in this century. The needs and unresolved challenges of children with ADD are affecting virtually every school in this nation, and a high number of adult issues in the workplace have

Introduction to Allergy
What Your Doctor May Not tell You About Children's Allergies and Asthma: Simple Steps to Help Stop Attacks and Improve Your Child's Health
by Paul Ehrlich, M.D., Larry Chiaramonte, M.D.
Allergic reaction and asthma attacks among children have increased 95 percent since 1980! One in thirteen school-age children has asthma, and the greatest rise in the incidence of allergies and/or asthma is occurring among preschool-age children.

Killer Diseases Begin with Childhood Nutrition
Growing Up Healthy
by Joan Lunden, Myron Winick, M.D.
I'm a new mom all over again! And just as excited and in awe of the challenge of parenthood as I was first time around. My new twins Kate and Max share the cover of this book with me because they, along with children everywhere, now have an amazing

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Health
Naturally Healthy Babies and Children: A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies, Nutrition and Health
by Aviva Jill Romm
As parents seek a more natural approach to children's health, Aviva Romm offers the most comprehensive and effective compilation of herbal remedies for children from infancy to pre-adolescence. Romm, a mother, midwife, and practicing herbalist with

The Mother and Her Child
by William S. Sadler, M.D., Lena K. Sadler, M.D.
To the mother who has passed through the experience of bringing the child into the world is usually given that intuitiveness which helps her in caring for that child when it is well and in recognizing certain symptoms when it is sick.

Children and Antidepressants
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Experts give advice on the safe use of antidepressants in children. Concerns about a possible risk of suicidality in children taking antidepressants emerged from an FDA analysis of a May 2003 report on pediatric studies of the antidepressant drug Paxil

Disturbances of the Heart
by Oliver T. Osborne, M.D.
A common characteristic in a large proportion of middle-aged or old patients with heart disease is the presence of degenerative changes in the myocardium, the valves, or the arteries of the heart. In children, on the other hand

Papers on Health
by John Kirk
Fevered children, whether in any actual fever, as scarlet, typhoid, or any other, or merely heated from some minor ailment, should be treated as under Fever. Have two small towels, wring them tightly out of cold water, fold one gently round the head.

Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
Healthy, happy children are the greatest of all rewards. All parents can have such children, and it is a duty they owe themselves, the children and the race. It is a most pleasant duty, for the returns are far greater than the cost.