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Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease – PediaCast 199 - Dr. Kim McBride joins Dr Mike in the PediaCast Studio to discuss the genetics of congenital heart disease. We explore hypoplastic left heart syndrome, aortic stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta. Evidence is mounting of a strong genetic basis for these disorders, and we’ll take a look at what this means for early diagnosis and [...] Vitamin D, Cigars, Mozart – PediaCast 198 - Join Dr Mike as he covers news parents can use and adds three scientific studies to our research round-up. Topics this week include Vitamin D and its link to depression, dissolvable tobacco and nicotine (bad!), flavored cigars (also bad!), milk consumption and colon cancer, food marketing (an update), folic acid and language development, Mozart and [...] Whooping Cough, Handwriting, Self-Esteem – PediaCast 197 - Join Dr Mike as he covers news parents can use and answers listener questions from the PediaCast Studio. Topics this week include: vaccines for parents – should mom and dads get shots at the pediatrician’s office? Plus “pseudo-outbreaks” of whooping cough, handwriting and academic success, the relationship between asthma and infant growth, discrepancies in child-abuse [...]
