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The Child’s Doctor is published by Children’s Memorial Hospital twice a year for community-based physicians. The journal offers continuing medical education (CME)through articles authored by Children’s Memorial’s physicians. It also includes news articles on research at Children’s Memorial. Read the latest issue of The Child’s Doctor here.
Articles on topics in pediatric infectious diseases:
New HPV Vaccine by Ben Katz, MD Published Fall 2007
The new quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) is the first available vaccine specifically aimed to prevent cancer. This vaccine was licensed in the US in June 2006 for girls and women 9 to 26 years of age. This article will discuss the new HPV vaccine, HPV and the diseases it may cause, and the extent to which the quadrivalent vaccine offers protection against these diseases. To date, the HPV vaccine’s efficacy and safety profile is very promising, although more long-term data are needed to determine durability of protection.
Ask the Experts/International Travel Medicine by Tina Q. Tan, MD Published Fall 2006
What immunizations and medications are recommended for children traveling abroad?
Kawasaki Disease for the Primary Care Pediatrician by Anne Rowley, MD, and Stanford Shulman, MD Published Fall 2004
Kawasaki disease (KD) has replaced acute rheumatic fever as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed nations. KD can lead to coronary artery aneurysms in about 25% of untreated children, and can result in sudden death from coronary aneurysm rupture or thrombosis leading to myocardial infarction. The existence of effective therapy for a disease with potentially fatal consequences makes accurate diagnosis critical. In this review, we highlight aspects of the diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, therapy, and cardiology of KD that are of particular interest to the primary care pediatrician.
Post-adoption Screening of International Adoptees by
Todd Ochs, MD Published Fall 2004
With the growing numbers of internationally adopted children, pediatricians must be prepared to address a myriad of medical and psychological special needs these patients present. In 2003, over 21,000 children from oversees were adopted by American families, a sizable increase from over 8,000 just a decade earlier. Issues encountered during evaluation of children adopted from abroad are very similar to the ones seen in the U.S. foster children. Even a healthy-appearing international adoptee will need comprehensive screening tests, since immunization status often is uncertain, and orphanage life is a Petri dish of infectious diseases, as well as an impediment to emotional and physical development.
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