As a tribute to Dr. Bill and Martha’s 50th wedding anniversary, the Sears kids share what they admire most about their parents’ marriage and relationship. Jim My parents are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary, and I’ve been around for forty-nine years of this great adventure called “The Sears Family.” As I’ve been reflecting on what to […]
Martha Sears Discusses Nursing & Motherhood by Lauren Sears As a kid, I would usually forget that my mom was a nurse. I never saw her in scrubs, or loop a stethoscope around her neck. In fact, I rarely heard about her nursing days. It was more my dad who reminded me of my mom’s nursing profession by […]
Teaching Kids How to Choose Snacks instead of Treats A few afternoons ago, our 9 year-old was pretty hungry after getting home from school. I suggested she go to kitchen to get a snack as I continued the project I was working on. A little while later, I wandered through the kitchen to find her […]
6 Steps to a Good Gut Start While we tend to think that inflammation affects only older people, it really is an illness of all organs at all ages. In fact, new insights reveal that inflammation prevention should start at birth. Scientists who study infants are proposing a new theory: how a baby enters the […]
Graze, Sip and Dip for a Healthy Pregnancy What’s going on in there? Every mother wonders how her habits affect how her baby is growing. Once upon a time it was thought that a baby in the womb grew according to a predetermined genetic blueprint, and as long as a mother took reasonably good care […]
Are inhalers the best solution? One of the aspects of asthma and allergy treatment we discuss in The Allergy Book is the important of lifestyle changes. Inhalers certainly help reduce asthma symptoms when needed, but to solve some of the more underlying causes requires a deeper level of intervention that doesn’t always have to involve […]
It’s allergy season again, and those who suffer from severe allergic asthma now have a new option for treatment for severe asthma. Omalizumab is a cutting-edge therapy that offers hope for asthma sufferers who don’t find adequate relief from standard medications. This medical breakthrough is not a medication; it’s a manufactured antibody that inactivates a […]
Eye Health is now tied to Childhood Obesity We pediatricians are reading more and more scientific articles about the long-term disease consequences of childhood obesity, especially diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. A study published in the December 2014 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics revealed that children who carry around excess body fat […]
The answer might surprise you. It’s allergy season again. Noses are dripping, eyes are watering, skin is itching, and lungs are wheezing all across America. And many people have the misconception that allergies are primarily controlled by these body parts where the reactions occur. Yet, allergies and allergic disorders are much more complex than that, and […]
THERE’S ONE MAJOR THING EVERY ALLERGY SUFFERER SHOULD TRY FIRST Introducing The Allergy Book: Solving Your Family’s Nasal Allergies, Asthma, Food Sensitivities, and Related Health and Behavioral Problems. It comes out April 7 and is available for preorder wherever books are sold online. Here’s a sneak peak into just one of our many approaches to […]
It’s a Virtual World: Setting Practical Screen Time Limits (dailyRx News) Tablets, smartphones, computers, TVs — sometimes it feels like a screen-crazy world. As children use more screens in their daily lives, guidelines on their limits may need to be reconsidered. That’s the message from a new study on kids and screen use. The authors […]
U.S. pediatricians reaffirm opposition to legalized pot (Reuters Health) – Despite moves by some states to allow recreational and medical use of marijuana, a large group of U.S. pediatricians says in a new statement that the substance should remain – for the most part – illegal. In an update to its 2004 position statement on […]
