Learning From Experts — A Trip To Bangladesh
Recently, I was delighted to be asked to participate in a research study involving identifying the best ways of providing calcium to women with very low calcium intakes in Bangladesh. This … Full Entry »
View ArticleVitamin D Guidelines For Infants And Children (Updated)
Over two years ago I wrote my first blog post about vitamin D and children. This post was timed to coincide with the release of new guidelines issued by the … Full Entry »
View ArticleUpdate On Managing The Nationwide Shortages Of Medications For Premature Babies
In the fall of 2011, I wrote a blog post about the challenges of dealing with shortages of important medications and intravenous nutrition components in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit … Full Entry »
View ArticleCamp Kesem Comes To Houston
Several years ago, my daughter Ruth, then a college sophomore, changed her name. One day she decided that she was to be known as “Cinnamon”. To say the least, my … Full Entry »
View ArticleChristmas In The NICU: A Doctor’s Perspective
I’ve spent a lot of Christmas days and nights in a NICU. In fact, I’ve spent virtually all of the last 30 of them there. This is not a problem … Full Entry »
View ArticleWandering Through The Infant Formula Aisle: A Guide For The Perplexed
When I first started as a pediatric trainee in 1982, if an infant was going to receive a formula, which, unfortunately was most of them back then, there were only … Full Entry »
View ArticleNew Infant Formulas: Are They Really Better?
The development and subsequent marketing of new products is a universal aspect of the infant formula landscape [see previous article on infant formulas, here]. Marketing of infant formula is … Full...
View ArticleClinical Judgments And Research In Neonatal Nutrition
One of the most important changes in medicine in recent years has been an increased emphasis on practicing evidence-based medicine. Physicians and others caring for patients should not rely entirely …...
View ArticleCamp Kesem Rice (University): Making Magic!
“I just can’t understand why my dad didn’t get that mole checked out. If he had, I’d still have him.” “I have so many things I want to tell my … Full Entry »
View ArticleNearly 30 Years At Texas Children’s Hospital: Memories And A Goodbye To A...
I arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital from Ohio as a newly minted fellow in neonatology in the summer of 1985. At the time, Texas Children’s was one building, now called “Abercrombie”, and … Full Entry »
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