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Ask the Pediatrician: Keep your child’s heart healthy: Habits to start early

Hastings Tribune 24 Mar 2025
When it comes to your child's health, do you think much about their risks for developing heart disease? Probably not, since so much of keeping kids healthy means dealing with sore throats, scraped knees and other ailments. But recent research ... .
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Ask the Pediatrician: Building blocks for healthy self-esteem in kids

The Keene Sentinel 18 Mar 2025
Self-esteem, or the way we view ourselves, plays a central role in a child’s motivation and achievements in school, social relationships and their ability to bounce back from setbacks ... .
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Eugenie "Genie" Heitmiller, MD, FAAP, Named Chief of Anesthesiology at Children's National Health System (Children's National Medical Center Inc)

Public Technologies 10 Mar 2025
). Eugenie "Genie" Heitmiller, MD, FAAP, a nationally recognized leader in pediatric anesthesiology, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Anesthesiology, Sedation, and Perioperative Medicine at Children's National Health System. Dr ... Dr.
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Ask the Pediatrician: Bird flu facts for families

The Daily Gazette 10 Mar 2025
Birds in the United States can be affected by avian flu, also called H5N1 bird flu or avian influenza. But can it affect your family? Bird flu is caused by avian influenza type A viruses, including the avian flu type ... .
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Commentary: Why pediatricians are worried

The Daily Gazette 05 Mar 2025
Early in my career as a pediatrician, it would not be unusual to get a phone call in the middle of the night from the worried parent of a child with a high fever. I got out of bed, met ... .
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