Getting every kid outdoors: Notes from the field

Notes on getting presaturation from collapsing a Woodin cardinal

Getting Back on the Field

R eturning an injured or ill athlete safely to practice and, eventually, competition is a crucial role of the team physician. This process usually relies on the daily care and monitoring of athletic trainers and/or physical therapists. Individual athletes all have their strengths and weaknesses. Some tolerate pain and discomfort without a hint of a problem, all in an effort to return to their s...

Pediatric primary care to help prevent child maltreatment: the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Model.

CONTEXT Effective strategies for preventing child maltreatment are needed. Few primary care-based programs have been developed, and most have not been well evaluated. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to evaluate the efficacy of the Safe Environment for Every Kid model of pediatric primary care in reducing the occurrence of child maltreatment. METHODS A randomized trial was conducted from June 2002 to...

The safe environment for every kid model: impact on pediatric primary care professionals.

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model of enhanced primary care would improve the attitudes, knowledge, comfort, competence, and behavior of child health care professionals (HPs) regarding addressing major risk factors for child maltreatment (CM). METHODS In a cluster randomized controlled trial, 18 private practices were assigned to intervention (SEEK) o...

Disease models for every field

Primary immunodeficiencies (PID), which formerly concerned mainly geneticists, immunologists and hematologists, have now become a resource for essentially all fields in biomedicine. This is not surprising, given that the number of different forms of PID has reached more than 100 and affects such fundamental aspects of cell biology as transcription factors, vesicular transport and endoribonuclea...