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Each year, Advances in Pediatrics brings you the latest developments and discoveries by preeminent practitioners in the field. A distinguished editorial board identifies areas of major progress and invited specialists contribute original articles on these topics. These reviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.

Volume 56 Highlights:

• Foundations of Pediatrics: Henry K. Silver, MD
• Reach Out and Read: Literacy Promotion in Pediatric Primary Care
• Immunization Update II
• Severe Childhood Respiratory Viral Infections
• Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus: A Prenatal and Postnatal Threat
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Adolescents
• Opportunities for the Primary Prevention of Obesity During Infancy
• Relationships Among Serum Iron, Inflammation, and Body Mass Index in Children
• The Gender Medicine Team: “It Takes a Village”
• Fragile X: A Family of Disorders
• Autism: An Update
• Child Pornography: Legal and Medical Considerations
• Advances in the Care of Children with Burns
• Pediatric Brain Tumors
• Pediatric Stroke: Past, Present, and Future
• Global Child Health: Promises Made to Children - Not Yet Kept
• Advances in the Management of Pain in Children: Acute Pain
• Update in Pediatric Resuscitation

Advances in Pediatrics publishes annually in August.

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Editor Information

Michael S. Kappy, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO

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