by Dr. Allen Cherer | Sep 20, 2021 | blog, Child Health Care, Dr. Allen Cherer, Pediatrics
For the majority of the pandemic, it has been recommended that people gather outdoors if they must gather at all, but that appears to be changing a little. The Delta variant of covid-19 has changed the playing field even among the vaccinated. Initially, we were...
by Dr. Allen Cherer | Apr 10, 2018 | blog, Dr. Allen Cherer
Sick newborns often rely on a ventilator to supply oxygen, and are tethered by a plastic endotracheal tube (ETT). Often-times, this tube accidentally pops out. This represents the fourth most common complication experienced by newborns in NICUs. It can cause oxygen...
by Dr. Allen Cherer | Apr 10, 2018 | blog, Dr. Allen Cherer
It’s been said that statistics can be used to prove just about anything. Take, for example, one study that I recently read about, which examined the link between vegetarianism among pregnant women and an increased risk of drug and alcohol abuse among their children....
by Dr. Allen Cherer | Apr 10, 2018 | blog, Dr. Allen Cherer
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a serious illness in the newborn and young infant. The virus, first discovered in the mid-1960s, is transmitted through percutaneous (i.e., puncture through skin) or mucosal (i.e., direct contact with mucous membranes) exposure...
by Dr. Allen Cherer | Nov 28, 2017 | blog, Child Health Care, Dr. Allen Cherer
In 1943, Julia Bell and James Martin first described the sex-linked heritable condition now termed Fragile X Syndrome (FXS). In their paper, “A Pedigree of Mental Deficit Showing Sex-Linkage”, they described a single kindred in which eleven males spanning two...
