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Your child has just brought home the letter parents dread to receive – head lice is in their classroom. But we know our readers follow the #smartnotstressed philosophy, so like...

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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Read this Blog if youve got the Flu

What a week in the infection department, huh? This year’s flu season’s been declared an “epidemic;” we’re getting hit with both regular winter respiratory flu AND the stomach flu (that...

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What you “kneed”to know..

Do you like that title? “What you “kneed”to know?” I laughed. Anyway, I was watching my 9 year old daughter’s ice skating lesson yesterday and on the rink there were...

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Melatonin for Kids: Hit the Snooze or Not?

I don’t think I’ve had a good night’s sleep since the Bush administration (second one). I’ve always been a light sleeper. When I was a teenager my mother used to...

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Calm Under Pressure- Is your Child Getting Screened for Hypertension?

In medicine you can categorize diseases many different ways: by body system, character of disease (like infection or trauma or cancer, etc.). Lots of grouping. One of my personal favorites...

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New Peanut Allergy Guidelines: A Balanced View

Friends, tonight I’m publishing ‘the other side’ or ‘the balanced view’ of this whole new early exposure to peanuts gig. We’ve talked before about how medicine isn’t perfect, and...

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Things that make you go "hmmm": a few medical surprises!

Sometimes (ok maybe more than that) medicine dishes out some surprises. Like this whole peanut allergy guideline change—that’s kind of a surprise, right? Everyone’s chatting that up quite a bit:...

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Big News from the Peanut Allergy Gallery

So a big “wow” on the peanut allergy news, huh? Major league “about face.” Happens every now and again in medicine. We’re a “keep on learning” kind of crew, and...

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Treating Children in the Urgent Care Setting

as featured in Smart Parenting • By Smarter Admin• December 12, 2016 • Guest Blog Posts Anyone who likes going to urgent care or the emergency department, raise your hand! Anyone? No...

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