"The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies--by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, and at the same time make good money...

"When a baby is born early, an incubator helps the child keep growing. At first, some medical experts were skeptical about these special cribs. But trailblazing doctors' "incubator exhibits" showed people how incubators save lives"--

El libro Atención nutricional integral en pediatría se constituye en un marco de referencia para profesionales de la salud, especialmente nutricionistas, médicos y enfermeros que comienzan a incursionar en la nutrición clínica pediátrica en temas como la epigenética, la atención al prematuro, la lactancia materna, la tamización nutricional, la valoración nutricional, el seguimiento al alta hospitalaria, la educación nutricional, la prescripción...

A revealing account of how families adapt to living with a chronically ill child What is it like to live with a child who has a chronic, life-threatening disease? What impact does the illness have on well siblings in the family? Myra Bluebond-Langner suggests that understanding the impact of the illness lies not in identifying deficiencies in the lives of those affected, but in appreciating how family members carry on with their lives in the face...

La cuarta edición de "Fundamentos de Pediatría" que la Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas pone orgullosamente hoya su disposición, es el resultado de un arduo trabajo académico y editorial en el que han participado muchas personas, con el fin de reunir los conocimientos más relevantes y actualizados alrededor de la Pediatría como especialidad, para compartirlos con quienes en el ejercicio de su profesión se ocupan de la salud infantil....

As a mother, a pediatric ER doctor and a concussion specialist, I have seen my share of concussed individuals. Even my own child was diagnosed with 2 concussions, and we were completely in the dark on how to treat him (for the first one!) What motivated me to write this book, was the number of patients who had received misinformation about how to diagnose and treat their concussion, and how appropriate, targeted therapy could dramatically alter and...

La medicina es un área del saber que mejora y cambia cada día por diferentes razones: los nuevos descubrimientos en biología molecular y en genética, los grandes avances en informática, tecnología y comunicaciones, el desarrollo de nuevos medicamentos, cada vez más eficaces y con menos efectos colaterales, el hallazgo de nuevas vacunas, la presentación de nuevas guías de práctica clínica basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible, el estudio...

El término "epilepsia se deriva de la palabra griega Epilambanein, que significa "ser atacado o tomado por sorpresa". Los primeros reportes acerca de esta enfermedad aparecieron en Mesopotamia hacia el 2000 a. C. En la antigua Grecia se le atribuía un origen divino y se denominaba "enfermedad sacra". Posteriormente, Hipócrates estuvo en desacuerdo con respecto al origen divino de la epilepsia, y fue el primero en hacer una aproximación científica...

Sam saw something awful and scary! Ms. Carol, a special therapist, will show Sam how to feel better. Children can help Sam feel better too by using drawings, play, and storytelling activities. They will be able to identify and manage their own feelings and difficulties in their lives following a traumatic event, crisis, or grief.

This document has been produced to bring together current advice on the evaluation and management of pediatric heart failure. It builds on the previous International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) guidelines published in 2004. The recently published 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure focused on the adult population; this document addresses children while recognizing the influence of adult heart failure practice...