Tag: American Academy of Pediatrics

• From the Mouths of Babes

  We take a lot for granted, don’t we? As parents we assume responsibility both for the wellbeing of our children and also their voice. Somebody has to, and obviously we, as their adult guardians, are better able to decide what’s best for them than they are –especially when they are young and inexperienced. It’s hard…

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  March 1, 2017

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  American Academy of Pediatrics, British Columbia, HPV and vaccination, immunization, informed consent, male exclusion for HPV vaccination, mature minor, Medical consent, The Guardian newspaper, vaccination, vaccination in schools

• The Peanut Trap

  You know, there are times when the cart should precede the horse and not follow blindly behind it along the same old paths. We are too often seduced by the roads that others have made simply because we know where they go and what we might reasonably expect to encounter along the way. The problem,…

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  March 22, 2015

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  American Academy of Pediatrics, anaphylaxis, childhood allergy, Dr.Du Toit, Jewish children, Mark Twain, New England Journal of Medicine, Peanut allergy, peanut-based [roducts, the cart and the horse, the LEAP study