The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 149, Issue 4 , Pages A4-A8, October 2006

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Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc 

THE THREAT TO MEDICINE FROM THE CULT OF IRRATIONALITY 433

Richard E. Behrman, MD, Menlo Park, California

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Editorials 

THERE’S MANY A SLIP… 435

Carl G. M. Weigle, MD, and Matt C. Scanlon, MD, MS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX: NOT A TIME TO “RELAX” 436

Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD, Columbus, Ohio

HYPNOSIS: AN IMPORTANT MULTIFACETED THERAPY 438

Ran D. Anbar, MD, Syracuse, New York

THE APGAR CHALLENGE 440

William Keenan, MD, St. Louis, Missouri

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Medical progress 

NOSOCOMIAL ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 441

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH, Rebekah R. Heinzen, MHS, Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH, and George K. Siberry, MD, MPH, Baltimore, Maryland

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Commentary 

NEW ROTAVIRUS VACCINES: RENEWED OPTIMISM 448

Miguel O’Ryan, MD, and David O. Matson, MD, PhD, Norfolk, Virginia

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Original articles 

RISK FACTORS FOR INTUSSUSCEPTION IN INFANTS IN VIETNAM AND AUSTRALIA: ADENOVIRUS IMPLICATED, BUT NOT ROTAVIRUS 452

Julie E. Bines, MD, FRACP, Nguyen Thanh Liem, MD, PhD, Frances A. Justice, BSc, Tran Ngoc Son, MD, PhD, Carl D. Kirkwood, PhD, Margaret de Campo, MBBS, Peter Barnett, MD, FRACP, Ruth F. Bishop, AO, PhD, DSc, Roy Robins-Browne, MBBS, PhD, John B. Carlin, PhD, and the Intussusception Study Group, Parkville, Melbourne, and Perth, Australia, and Hanoi, Vietnam

INPATIENT VERBAL ORDERS AND THE IMPACT OF COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY 461

Jennifer M. Kaplan, MD, Rose Ancheta, MS, Brian R. Jacobs, MD, and the Clinical Informatics Outcomes Research Group, Cincinnati, Ohio

EFFECT OF BACLOFEN ON ESOPHAGOGASTRIC MOTILITY AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX IN CHILDREN WITH GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL 468

Taher I. Omari, BSc, PhD, Marc A. Benninga, MD, PhD, Lloyd Sansom, BSc, PhD, Ross N. Butler, BSc, MSc, PhD, John Dent, MB BChir, PhD, and Geoffrey P. Davidson, MB BS, MD, Adelaide and North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands

50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—PULMONARY ENDARTERITIS WITH COR PULMONALE IN INFANCY: REPORT OF A CASE 474

Steven H. Abman, MD, Denver, Colorado

FACTORS REGULATING GASTRIC EMPTYING IN PRETERM INFANTS 475

Alex Ramirez, MD, William W. Wong, PhD, and Robert J. Shulman, MD, Columbia, Missouri, and Houston, Texas

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION DIAGNOSIS OF PRIMARY HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6 INFECTION IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING 480

Danielle M. Zerr, MD, MPH, Lisa M. Frenkel, MD, Meei-Li Huang, PhD, Margaret Rhoads, BA, Long Nguy, BS, Mark A. Del Beccaro, MD, and Lawrence Corey, MD, Seattle, Washington

INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY OF THE 5-MINUTE APGAR SCORE 486

Colm P. F. O’Donnell, FRACP, C. Omar F. Kamlin, MRCPCH, Peter G. Davis, MD, John B. Carlin, PhD, and Colin J. Morley, MD, Melbourne, Australia

CORTICAL RECRUITMENT PATTERNS IN CHILDREN BORN PREMATURELY COMPARED WITH CONTROL SUBJECTS DURING A PASSIVE LISTENING FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TASK 490

Laura R. Ment, MD, Bradley S. Peterson, MD, Betty Vohr, MD, Walter Allan, MD, Karen C. Schneider, MPH, Cheryl Lacadie, BS, Karol H. Katz, MS, Jill Maller-Kesselman, MS, Kenneth Pugh, PhD, Charles C. Duncan, MD, Robert W. Makuch, PhD, and R. Todd Constable, PhD, New Haven, Connecticut, New York, NY, Providence, Rhode Island, and Portland, Maine

SMALLER MANDIBULAR SIZE IN INFANTS WITH A HISTORY OF AN APPARENT LIFE-THREATENING EVENT 499

Mary H. Horn, RN, MS, RRT, Daniel D. Kinnamon, MS, Nalton Ferraro, DMD, MD, and Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN, Boston, Massachusetts, and Miami, Florida

HIGH PREVALENCE OF AEROALLERGEN SENSITIZATION AMONG INFANTS OF ATOPIC PARENTS 505

Grace K. LeMasters, PhD, Kimberly Wilson, MS, Linda Levin, PhD, Jocelyn Biagini, MS, Patrick Ryan, MS, James E. Lockey, MD, Sherry Stanforth, RN, CNP, Stephanie Maier, RT, Jun Yang, BS, Jeff Burkle, BS, Manuel Villareal, MD, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD, and David I. Bernstein, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio

50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—PSYCHOLOGIC ASPECTS OF PEDIATRICS: INFORMING THE PARENTS OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILD 511

Laura B. Williams, MS, and Eric A. Storch, PhD, Gainesville, Florida

COMPARISON OF BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION WITH AND WITHOUT SWADDLING AS INTERVENTIONS FOR EXCESSIVE CRYING 512

B. E. van Sleuwen, MSc, M. P. L’Hoir, PhD, MSc, A. C. Engelberts PhD, MD, W. B. Busschers MSc, P. Westers, PhD, MSc, M. A. Blom, T. W. J. Schulpen, Prof, Dr, and W. Kuis, Prof, Dr, Utrecht and Sittard, The Netherlands

THE PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN PEDIATRIC SURVIVORS OF CANCER 518

Paul C. Nathan, MD, MSc, Vesna Jovcevska, BSc (Hon), Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, Norma Mammone D’Agostino, PhD, Patricia Staneland, RN, BScN, Stacey L. Urbach, MD, MPH, Mary Barron, MSc, RD, Maru Barrera, MA, PhD, and Mark L. Greenberg, MB, ChB, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Minneapolis, Minnesota

THE ROLE OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, DEPRESSION, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND GLYCEMIC CONTROL IN TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS 526

Krishnavathana Hassan, MBBS, Robert Loar, Barbara J. Anderson, PhD, and Rubina A. Heptulla, MD, Houston, Texas

REPRODUCTIVE OUTCOME IN PATIENTS TREATED AND NOT TREATED FOR IDIOPATHIC EARLY PUBERTY: LONG-TERM RESULTS OF A RANDOMIZED TRIAL IN ADULTS 532

Alessandra Cassio, MD, Milva O. Bal, MD, Luigi F. Orsini, MD, Antonio Balsamo, MD, Silvia Sansavini, MD, Monia Gennari, MD, Enrico De Cristofaro, MD, and Alessandro Cicognani, MD, Bologna, Italy

VENOUS THROMBOSIS AND THROMBOEMBOLISM IN CHILDREN WITH OSTEOMYELITIS 537

Shelley E. Crary, MD, George R. Buchanan, MD, Casey E. Drake, MD, and Janna M. Journeycake, MD, Dallas, Texas

PREDICTORS OF SEIZURE ONSET IN RETT SYNDROME 542

Le Jian, MD, Lakshmi Nagarajan, MD, Nicholas de Klerk, PhD, David Ravine, MBBS, Carol Bower, MBBS, Alison Anderson, BSc(Hons), Sarah Williamson, BSc(Hons), John Christodoulou, MBBS, and Helen Leonard, MBChB, Perth, Western Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, and Westmead, Sydney, Australia

LONG-TERM OUTCOMES AFTER INFANT LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR SURFACTANT PROTEIN B DEFICIENCY RELATED TO OTHER CAUSES OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE 548

Lisanne M. Palomar, BS, Lawrence M. Nogee, MD, Stuart C. Sweet, PhD, MD, Charles B. Huddleston, MD, F. Sessions Cole, MD, and Aaron Hamvas, MD, St Louis, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland

50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—HEPATITIS IN THREE SIBLINGS: POSSIBILITY OF INTRAUTERINE TRANSMISSION 553

Kathleen M. Campbell, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio

ACID SPHINGOMYELINASE DEFICIENCY: PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN INTERMEDIATE PHENOTYPE OF NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE 554

Melissa P. Wasserstein, MD, Alan Aron, MD, Scott E. Brodie, MD, PhD, Calogera Simonaro, PhD, Robert J. Desnick, MD, PhD, and Margaret M. McGovern, MD, PhD, New York, New York

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Special article 

PEDIATRIC WORKFORCE: A LOOK AT PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY DATA FROM THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRICS 560

Linda A. Althouse, PhD, and James A. Stockman, III, MD, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Clinical and laboratory observations 

CLINICAL HYPNOSIS AS AN EFFECTIVE ADJUNCT IN THE CARE OF PEDIATRIC INPATIENTS 563

Andrew J. Barnes, MD, and Daniel P. Kohen, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota

HYPOTHYROIDISM IN A BREAST-FED PRETERM INFANT RESULTING FROM MATERNAL TOPICAL IODINE EXPOSURE 566

Vincent C. Smith, MD, MPH, Britta M. Svoren, MD, and Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, MB, BCh, Boston, Massachusetts

COMPLIANCE WITH GUIDELINES FOR ADHD: A PILOT STUDY OF AN EVALUATION TOOL 568

Rachel C. Vreeman, MD, Kristine A. Madsen, MD, MPH, Daniel J. Vreeman, PT, DPT, Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS, and Stephen M. Downs, MD, MS, Indianapolis, Indiana, and San Francisco, California

ADALIMUMAB THERAPY FOR CHILDHOOD UVEITIS 572

Liza B. Vazquez-Cobian, MD, Thomas Flynn, MD, and Thomas J. A. Lehman, MD, New York, New York

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Insights 

A VERTEBRO-VERTEBRAL FISTULA AS A COMPLICATION OF A JUGULAR LINE 576

Mervyn D.I. Vergouwen, MD, Charles B.L.M. Majoie, MD, PhD, Willem-Jan J. van Rooij, MD, PhD, and Bwee-Tien Poll-The, MD, PhD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SKULL MASS AS A HERALDING SIGN OF PRECURSOR B-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA IN A TODDLER 577

Jiaan-Der Wang, MD, Fang-Liang Huang, MD, Ching-Shiang Chi, MD, Guan Chou, MD, and Te-Kau Chang, MD, Taiwan, Republic of China

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Letters 

GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA 578

Hung-Chih Lin, MD, Tsu-Fu Yeh, MD, PhD, and Fuu-Jen Tsai, MD, PhD, Taichung, Taiwan 579

Géza Bokodi, László Derzbach, and Barna Vásárhelyi, Budapest, Hungary

REPLY 579

S. Nadya J Kazzi, MD, MPH, and Michael W. Quasney, MD, PhD, Detroit, Michigan, and Memphis, Tennessee

FLUID SUPPLEMENTATION FOR NEONATAL HYPERBILERUBINEMIA 580

Manoel De Carvalho, MD, PhD, and José Maria A. Lopes, MD, PhD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Michael L. Moritz, MD, and Juan C. Ayus, MD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 581

REPLY 581

Praveen Kumar, MD, DM, Shailender Mehta, MD, and Anil Narang, MD, Chandigarh, India

PEDIATRICIANS’ IQ ON RDS, NAFLD, AND SYNDROME X 582

I. David Schwartz, MD, Columbia, South Carolina

REPLY 583

M. R. Riley, N. M. Bass, P. Rosenthal, and R. B. Merriman, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California

ERRATUM 583

Katsuyuki Murata, MD, DMSc, Pál Weihe, MD, Esben Budtz-Jørgensen, PhD, Poul J. Jørgensen, MSc, and Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD, Akita, Japan, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Copenhagen and Odense, Denmark, and Boston, Massachusetts

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Corrections 

TARGETED GENOMIC MICROARRAY ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CHROMOSOME ABNORMALITIES IN 1500 CONSECUTIVE CLINICAL CASES 585

(Shaffer et al. J Pediatr 2006;149:98-102)

RITUXIMAB THERAPY FOR CHILDHOOD-ONSET SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS 586

(Willems et al. J Pediatr 2006;148:623-7)

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Reader services 

INFORMATION FOR READERS 10A

ANNOUNCEMENTS 11A

CERTIFICATIONS 12A

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PII: S0022-3476(06)00847-X

doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(06)00847-X

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 149, Issue 4 , Pages A4-A8, October 2006