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Food Allergies, Kids with : Poorer Nutrition?
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Kids with Food Allergies: Poorer Nutrition?
Children with food allergies must eliminate the food from their diets, given that there are no other treatments that work. And food allergy is not that rare, with 6-8% of children having such an allergy by age 3 years. Cow’s milk, egg, peanut, w.. |
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Teachers’ Powerful Words |
 In primary grades, the teacher-child relationship exerts a major influence on children’s social, behavioral, emotional, and academic adjustment. When college students are asked to recall the 2 most negative experiences in their lives, incidences of verbal abuse by a teacher (e.g., public humiliation in front of the class) were mentioned more often than any other type of negative experience. But the truth is, very little is known about the potential effect of verbal abuse by teachers and the potential effect on child development. Verbal abuse includes: public ridicule, teasing, name calling, yelling, and even acts of neglect (e.g., ignoring).
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OTCs -What’s in a Name? |
 Confusion over the similarity of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drug names has accounted for as many as 25% of all reports to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Medication Errors Reporting Program. Many of these reports involve the use of OTC brand names by a manufacturer for multiple products with different active ingredients. Manufacturers like to give new products names that are similar to their previously well-established products in order to take advantage of name recognition among consumers and health care professionals. But as USP reports show, this has led to confusion and medication errors. Here are some examples worth noting:
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Gaining and Keeping Adolescent Trust |
 In primary care settings, a patient’s trust is more strongly associated with improved health than other characteristics of the patient-provider relationship. Trust affects patient satisfaction with health care services, willingness to disclose sensitive information, adherence to treatment, and continuity with that health care provider. Trust among adolescent patients is formed for different characteristics than adults. Among adults, trust is based on perceived caring, competence, and communication skills of the professional treating them. Distrust that confidentiality will be broken is a barrier to health care use and compliance among adolescents. .
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