You Need A Carbon Monoxide Alarm
There’s a new law today in Washington State requiring carbon monoxide (CO) alarms in apartments, condos, and single-family residences. You should have a CO detector on every level of your home (more...
View ArticleHave You Been In To See Dr. Google?
For practicing physicians, there’s a tricky balance in believing that the internet can help save lives. I’m a doctor who encourages families to look up health info online and one who believes...
View ArticleCan Soda Companies Help Fight Obesity?
I’m curious what you think. Do you think companies that make, sell, and market soda can improve the challenges we face with obesity? I’m asking sincerely. I was struck by the Coca-Cola ad (below)...
View ArticleSalmonella From Food, Frogs, And Fido
Salmonella infections affect children more frequently and more severely than adults. Although most salmonella infections arise from contaminated or undercooked food (chicken, eggs, beef, and dairy...
View ArticleValue Of Well Baby Check-Ups
Some new data published in the American Journal of Managed Care finds increased value in preventative well baby and toddler check-ups. Not because it keeps pediatricians busy, but really because it...
View ArticleCT Scans And Cancer Risk
” Yesterday’s news,” my husband said when I shared a study published, well, yesterday. Yet what we do with yesterday’s information is of course the news today. A JAMA Pediatrics article found that the...
View ArticleIt’s Hot Out But The Water Is Still Cold
There have been 4 teen drownings around here just in the last week. I’m left with a pit in my stomach that as the sun shines and our region heats up we lose children to preventable injuries at...
View ArticleFitbit Motivation, From Anecdote To Evidence
On Sunday night I left the house for a quick run. It was 9:20pm. It’s been years since I ran in the dark and likely a decade or more since running at night made any sense in my life. As every parent...
View ArticleOn Motion Sickness
I really love this TEDEd video explaining motion sickness. What I find most helpful is the admission that we humans still know very little about motion sickness, why gender differences exist (women get...
View ArticleLet Them Sleep, Start School Later
Over the past decade mounting evidence finds that teens are chronically sleep deprived and subsequently suffering significant health effects. Chronic sleep deprivation is becoming the norm for our high...
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