Brazil is developing a Family Health Program in the Primary Health Care. The Family Health Program's team composition has been criticized as insufficient. One of the criticisms has been about the absence of the pediatrician. This study analyzed the experience of the city of Campinas, São Paulo State, which implemented this program with adaptations specifically with the presence of the pediatric...

OBJECTIVE To study the factors involved in the maintenance of exclusive breastfeeding in healthy infants during the first 4 months of life, with emphasis on the role of pediatricians. MATERIAL AND METHODS A longitudinal study was carried out with 101 healthy term babies at a pediatrics outpatient clinic in Uberaba, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The babies were divided at random into three gr...

The pediatrician who cares for a child with a birth defect or genetic disorder may be in the best position to alert the family to the possibility of a recurrence of the same or similar problems in future offspring. The family may wish to know about and may benefit from methods that convert probability statements about recurrence risks into more precise knowledge about a specific abnormality in ...

CASE When the pediatrician went to examine Jenny at 1 day of age in the hospital, she was not surprised to find a healthy, full-term neonate with a normal physical examination, including a normal developmental assessment. She was responsive and robust with wide open eyes that engaged her mother and the pediatrician. A review of the medical records revealed that both parents were significantly h...

HowCan I Tell If My Child Has a Speech or Language Delay? While every child develops in his or her own unique way, there are speechand languagemilestones thatmost childrenwill reachat certain ages. Your pediatrician will talk with you about these milestonesduringwell-child checkups.Examplesof thesemilestones for speech and language are: • By 1 year of age, most babies will: • Wave goodbye. • Sa...

Herpetic diseases are widespread among cancer patients and of interest to specialists in various fields. It is herpetic infections that often common cases infant mortality. The main causative agents phenomena humans manifested by the 8 most studied types virus. article presents a review modern scientific literature on caused herpes viruses 6 7. issues history study diseases, etiology, features ...