When your child's sick

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Tips on recognizing danger points in fevers, colds, coughs, earaches, chronic crying, rashes, low appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation are provided, including the sequences of treatments one should attempt before calling a pediatrician.

Author: Meyer, Michelle
Practice, Pediatricians

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How to speak your baby's language

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Advice on understanding and communicating with one's baby is presented. Suggestions on how to interpret different types of crying and gestures and how to calmly respond to a baby's needs are offered.

Author: Hogg, Tracy, Blau, Melinda
Analysis, Cover Story, Study and teaching, Parenting, Infant care, Nonverbal communication

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The price of life

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Parents in the US are having the lives of their newborn infants placed at risk if they fail to live in the regions where genetic screening is given as a matter of course.

Author: Stolberg, Sheryl Gay
United States, Genetic screening, Genetic testing

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Subjects list: Health aspects, Care and treatment, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Infants
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