Pediatric Nutrition Private Practice

Pediatric nutrition in practice: 2nd revised edition

In the first section, the authors have attempted to describe most of the aspects of childhood nutrition in a concise manner. The topics have been chosen carefully and the authors have done justice with the subject. Apart from describing the process of nutritional assessment, nutritional needs of various age groups and the contribution of essential constituents like protein, carbohydrates and fa...

The Newer Nutrition in Pediatric Practice

Incidence of streptococcal carriers in private pediatric practice.

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GABHS) carriers in children who are well, in children seen with presumed and documented viral illnesses with sore throat, and in children after treatment of acute GABHS tonsillopharyngitis with 10 days of oral penicillin V potassium, oral cephalosporins, or macrolides. METHODS Prospective collection of clinical and ...

Pediatric private practice after Hurricane Katrina: proposal for recovery.

The health care system of the US Gulf Coast was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Physicians in the region have faced enormous financial and psychological challenges. Pediatricians have been particularly affected, because of the large number of children covered by Medicaid, with its associated low payments, and the failure of children and families to return to affected areas...

Textbook of Pediatric Nutrition

Despite intensive efforts for several decades, our understanding of tumor cell biology is at the stage where we are still trying to formulate the basic questions involved. We have found that neoplastic cells have subtle alterations in such fundamental processes as cell proliferation, differentiation, and morphogenesis, areas only barely understood in normal cells. Nevertheless, a great deal has...