Tag: family
member name: Vicky McEvoy, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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January 12, 2009 02:18 PM EST --
Children continue to teach me new things. While that may seem like a trite statement, I am a grandmother and pediatrician, after all, and one would think my learning curve would not be that steep, . . .
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October 27, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
Is that cute, little baby overtly defying you? There will come a time when your baby will begin testing you. Usually this starts in the second year — suddenly your baby has opinions! It may start by . . .
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December 15, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
Are you confused about flu vaccines? If so, you are not alone. The recommendations change from year to year, and so each fall, parents are barraged with information about when, whether, and how to get . . .
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February 10, 2009 11:20 AM EST --
Few families today have nine children (although apparently having fourteen is back in fashion), but I sometimes evoke what I call the “Rule of Nine” when families are having trouble setting limits on . . .
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February 03, 2009 03:49 PM EST --
What are those hard lumps on your children’s feet, fingers, and knees?
Most likely, a hard lump on the finger or bottom of the foot is a wart. Warts are caused by a virus, and when they are on the . . .
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February 17, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
Parents spend a lot of time studying their children’s bodies. At first they marvel that they produced this perfect little human specimen. Then, on closer exam, they start to notice little anomalies. . . .
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October 13, 2008 11:22 AM EDT --
I watched two brothers tussle in the exam room over some object of desire and thought a blog on siblings might be timely. For those of you who have siblings, you know the drill — you love them and hate . . .
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December 22, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
With obesity being one of Americans’ major health concerns, it’s become i ncreasingly important to get babies off to a good start in terms of eating healthfully. The questions around feeding your baby . . .
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December 29, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
New recommendations from the Academy of Pediatrics suggest that you find a dentist for your baby by the age of one. Previously, the group had recommended that children first see a dentist at age three, . . .
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September 15, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
In last week’s blog, we discussed normal and abnormal bowel movements in newborns. Today, I’ll review a bit of that information, and then go into more detail about constipation in babies — specifically . . .
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