A Columbia University study finds that recreational use of cannabis is dangerous for teenagers’ emotional and physical development.
Childhood obesity is a growing health problem in young children.
RSV is a cold that can become serious for babies. When to call your doctor?
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The Medical Team at PAGS believes that practicing pediatrics encompasses the whole child. We regularly evaluate and discuss the physical, social, emotional, and developmental well-being of children from newborn to young adults. The foundation of the whole child is his/her growth and development.
Traveling with children can be a delight and a challenge. Here are some helpful strategies and tips to make things easier.
Senior year is a time of intense anxiety and loss, surrounding an inevitable next step for many youth — college. As much as we would like summer vacation to be about, well, vacationing, odds are many students and their parents aren't having a totally worry-free summer.
How can I keep my kids safe online?! Viral challenges like the “momo challenge” that surfaced recently are only one of the many dangers that face our young, impressionable children.
How do we discourage vaping and educate teens and their parents on the dangers of e-cigarette use in what the FDA is calling an epidemic.
In a time when we rely on “Google” to answer almost any and all questions that come up on a given day, more people are turning to the internet for medical advice.
As the calendar changes to December the fall sports season comes to an end. This past fall was particularly busy in our practice, seeing a large number of patients with concussive brain injuries. Although there were soccer, volleyball, field hockey and cheerleading athletes with concussive injuries, the vast majority of patients with concussions were football players ranging in age from an 8 year old Pop Warner athlete to a 20 year old college football player. Brain trauma at any age is serious, but what is becoming an increasing concern with football in particular, are the multiple repetitive sub-concussive head impacts that occur throughout a tackle football game.
The recent 4th of July week has been particularly tough for us as a nation and for many parents. Unfortunately as a result, we are having many deeper conversations with our children about tragic events happening both in the US and worldwide.