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In 2019, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reaffirmed their stance on the palivizumab prophylaxis in high-risk infants and young children as guided by the 2014 AAP Guidelines. In Montana, RSV season generally commences in late November lasting...

This is a great time of year to review these topics. Every 5 minutes in the United States, a baby is born with a birth defect. At the top of the list of birth defects are congenital heart defects (CHDs). Demographic studies of congenital heart def...

According to the CDC, birth defects affect 1 out of 33 births in the U.S. with cleft lip/palate, heart defects and spinal bifida among the most common. We now know that taking 400 mcg folic acid (or the active form called l-methylfolate) before and d...

It is an unfortunate fact that many of us have forgotten: Heart disease and atherosclerosis start in childhood. The MI in a patient in their 40s and 50s started decades before, when they were a child. We know this from autopsy data in children and te...