Resource Center: journal article

Healthy Lifestyles and Tobacco: A Healthy Old Age Equals No Smoking article

This article is an intervention review. It reviews behavioral and pharmacological interventions for helping users quit smokeless tobacco.

A journal article about the BRCA 2 Gene. The article details cloning, gene structure, mapping, gene function, role in DNA repair, and molecular genetics.

Recognizing alcohol problems in primary care

A review of the pharmacologic approaches to tobacco cessation.

This article discusses mitochondrial cytopathies in depth, including diagnosis and clinical features.

Article Dealing With Cigar and Pipe Smoking Are as Dangerous as Cigarettes to Periodontal Health

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of complex genetic disorders with multisystem manifestations. This statement provides pediatricians in primary care and subspecialty practice with an overview of the genetics, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, and treatment of SCD. Specialized comprehensive medical care decreases morbidity and mortality during childhood. The provision of comprehensive care is a time-intensive endeavor that includes ongoing patient and family education, periodic comprehensive evaluations and other disease-specific health maintenance services, psychosocial care, and genetic counseling. Timely and appropriate treatment of acute illness is critical, because life-threatening complications develop rapidly. It is essential that every child with SCD receive comprehensive care that is coordinated through a medical home with appropriate expertise. (From Their Website)

This Web page, from the Mayo Clinic, provides guidance for patients about what to include in a family history, basic pedigree construction (not consistent with Bennett et al., 1995), limitations of the family history, and how to approach family members. It also includes a very basic form with columns for "blood relative" and "health conditions."

The newborn with abnormal genital development presents a difficult diagnostic and treatment challenge for the primary care pediatrician. It is important that a definitive diagnosis be determined as quickly as possible so that an appropriate treatment plan can be established to minimize medical, psychological, and social complications. The purpose of this review is to identify which newborns among those with abnormal genital development need to be screened for intersexuality, to outline the investigations necessary, and to suggest indications for referral to a center with experience in the diagnosis and management of these disorders. An outline is also presented of the embryology of the external genitalia indicating where errors can arise to provide a framework for pediatricians to use when counseling families. Although the focus of this review is on newborns with what has been termed “ambiguous genitalia,” it should be recognized that most genital abnormalities in newborns do not result in an ambiguous appearance. These anomalies include hypospadias, in which the genitalia are clearly malformed, although the sex is unquestionably male. (From Their Website)