Natalie Geary MD Medical Advisory Board Some children will eat everything put in front of them, while others have a more selective palate. But what do you do when your child’s meals are so limited that they lack variety and color? You may have tried making things into cute and funny shapes and still these
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Natalie Geary MD Medical Advisory Board The American Academy of Pediatrics has doubled the recommended daily dose of vitamin D for children and teens up to 400 units per day, which is equivalent to drinking four cups of milk. Vitamin D has been receiving great press and has been fortified in milk since 1933 for
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Dr. Natalie W. Geary, MD Medical Advisory Board Carbohydrates have gotten a bad wrap lately. But, actually they are a necessary and important part of your child’s diet. There really is no solid evidence to support the value of low-carb diets, especially for growing children and young adults. In fact, selective restriction diets are harmful
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Dr. Natalie W. Geary, MD Medical Advisory Board As a pediatrician and a mom, the safety of the toys my patients and children play with is paramount! It is also an obvious source of concern in light of new information coming out each month about toxic exposures in children and their effect on toddler development.
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board A sore throat can be more than a throat that hurts. It can vary from mild to severe, from viral to bacterial and the consequences range from insignificant to life changing. Testing for strep can make all the difference. The throat, or oral pharynx, is a passageway that
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board Medical advances over the past several decades have been remarkable. In the mid 1980’s, a revolution changed the way surgeons treated sinus disease. At that time, it was common practice to cut the skin of the face or the tissue above the upper teeth to gain access to
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Rajiv Leventhal There has been a slight uptick in telemedicine adoption in 2015 among healthcare providers, according to an updated telemedicine study from HIMSS Analytics. The study, which provides new information from HIMSS Analytics 2014 research on telemedicine adoption, leveraged data from the HIMSS Analytics Database and a survey of healthcare IT leaders. The findings
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA, MD Medical Advisory Board Nine year old little Billy has a runny nose, is coughing and complains that he can’t breathe through the nose. Is it a cold, his allergies, infected adenoids or sinusitis? How should it be treated? The sinuses (paranasal sinuses) are four pairs of air-filled cavities in the bones
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Deborah Kotz With leaps in technology, benefits of telemedicine keep expanding. Shae Reber of Wills Eye Hospital’s telemedicine department takes photos of patient Maurice Floyd’s eyes with a portable fundus camera. When Sonya Shakir’s 12-year-old son Charles developed a raging earache just before bedtime last winter, she decided to bypass the emergency room and head
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Dr. Bobby V. Khan, M.D., Ph.D. Cardiologist Both drugs and nutritional supplements have long been used to improve health and the quality of life. But the traditional delivery of these products—normally in the form or tablets or injectables—can be very difficult and inconvenient for many people. The practice of drug delivery has changed dramatically in
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