When should I be concerned about my moles? How dangerous are they?   Recently I had a number of teenagers come to the office for their yearly physicals. They had been put on hold because of the Covid pandemic, and now that there was optimism about high school sports opening up after the new year […]

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Ten-year-old Brett was brought to the office with a chief complaint of “headache”. Naturally this perked my interest.This could mean so many different things.   When I entered the room he was sitting with mom and looked to be very healthy. I asked him how his summer had been, how he was faring with the […]

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The recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, August 2020 is chucked full of articles related to the topic of ADHD. Here are the articles that are of significance:   ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER MEDICATION AND UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS by Laura Ghirardi, MSc, et al.Page 944 points […]

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What could cause this pain in her arm? She didn’t fall or bump it. But she won’t move it.   The office was just about to close when the phone rang and a frantic mom was calling about her 2 ½-year-old daughter who had injured her arm. She wanted to know if she should dare […]

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