Pediatrics

OBJECTIVES: To examine the long-term impact of assisted reproductive techniques (ART) on offspring neurodevelopment, accounting for parental factors and the role of infertility. METHODS: Linkage of national registers allowed follow-up of >…

A 12-year-old Hispanic girl presented with fatigue, lightheadedness, and intermittent headaches. She was depressed and appeared pale to her mother. Her examination was unremarkable except for palpebral conjunctival pallor and was otherwise …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the risk of adverse health outcomes for infants after assisted reproductive technology (ART)-treated and subfertile as compared with fertile deliveries. METHODS: Live-born singleton infants ≥23 weeks' gestational age …

Heightened publicity about hormonal contraception and thrombosis risk and the publication of new guidelines by the World Health Organization in 2009 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010 addressing this complex issue ha…

INTRODUCTION: Despite its increasing use as a complementary therapy to treat pain, acupuncture is rarely considered by pediatricians, in part due to perceptions that it will not be acceptable to pediatric patients. We wished to describe ped…

To the Editor. We obtained information on 95 female patients (age 9–18 years) with Down syndrome in Japan. The period of their birth was between 1976 and 1984 (median 1980). The mean menarcheal age of 60 menstruating subjects was 12.1 ± 1…