NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
I must be on a roll- this will be my second entry in less than a week. Time will tell how well I can keep this up. Anyway, this entry…
Read moreI must be on a roll- this will be my second entry in less than a week. Time will tell how well I can keep this up. Anyway, this entry…
Read moreFor those of you who have followed my many blogs in the past, I am sure the fact that I have not had a new blog in almost 15 months…
Read morePlease read the previous two entries before reading this one. Case History Two You are a busy pediatrician. You are seeing Nancy, a 7-year-old girl who has been followed…
Read moreIf you haven’t read my last entry, please read it before reading this one. Case History One You are a busy pediatrician. You are seeing Susie, a 7 year-old-girl who…
Read moreOver the past few weeks, I have been contacted by several friends who have each asked me if their child has started puberty too early (defined as precocious puberty). The…
Read moreDo you prescribe vitamin D, take vitamin D or have been told you are vitamin D deficient? If so, you should read an article published the other day in the…
Read moreThis week’s New England Journal of Medicine or the “NEJM” (Volume 379, No. 7) contained two very interesting articles about type two diabetes (T2DM). The first was entitled: “Smoking Cessation,…
Read moreI was dismayed by an article in the June 2018 issue of Diabetes Care (unfortunately you can’t read the article unless you have a subscription to the journal, have a…
Read moreOver the years, I have written quite a few entries about obesity, but I just want to call your attention to an editorial piece written last week (Tuesday, March 6,…
Read moreA few weeks ago, I was asked to give a didactic lecture on “The Pituitary Gland” to our pediatric resident docs. I was asked to focus on the posterior pituitary,…
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