Health Tips

by Dr. Elisa Argota, PM Pediatrics of Mamaroneck Super lice. Are you itching already? Sounds like this could be a new comic book character, but it is actually drug-resistant lice that have been found across the country. In the year 2000, head lice was 100% treatable with over-the-counter lice medications containing pyrethroids, but after several […]

an e-mail from Dr. Eric Weinberg, PM Pediatrics Director of Education Dear Staff, As many of you know, we had to reschedule our Pediatric Urgent Care Conference from Puerto Rico to NYC because of the worsening Zika virus outbreak in Puerto Rico. A small number of Zika cases have been reported in the continental U.S. […]

by Erika Sisk, FNP-C; PM Pediatrics of Bayside At the top of many children’s holiday wish lists are electronic devices and games. And as soon as those presents are open, parents will have to cope with what’s become a constant dilemma: how much screen time is too much? It turns out that the American Academy […]