Pediatrics

Penn State Mont Alto's annual Pediatric and Community Health Fair is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 14. The fair features horses, parachutes, puppet shows, ambulances, fire trucks, and a fly-in by the Life Lion helicopter. Participants can also shake hands and take a picture with the Penn State Nittany Lion. The fair provides information on several topics including childhood obesity, anger management, bullying and abuse, nutrition, and more. Attendees will discover community health resources available to them and will be eligible to win raffle prizes.

MONT ALTO, Pa. - In just eight weeks, Penn State Mont Alto nursing students proposed, organized and pulled off their first Pediatric Health Fair, which drew hundreds of people to the school campus on Saturday. Forty-eight students working toward associate degrees were charged with finding a creative way to promote healthy living and disease prevention, according to their professor, Linda Carl. "Each team (of two) was responsible to pick a topic and set up a booth about that topic," an enthusiastic Carl said.

HAGERSTOWN - Twinkling lights welcomed the Christmas season at the third annual Festival of Trees kickoff gala Wednesday night at Robinwood Medical Center. Organizers hoped that this year's four-day festival would raise $25,000 said Sandy Pollack, executive director of Antietam Healthcare Foundation Inc. Festival of Trees proceeds will go to establishing a pediatric asthma program at Washington County Hospital. "There's nothing worse than watching a child struggle for breath," Pollack said.

MONT ALTO, Pa.-- Penn State Mont Alto gave area children a healthy dose of education and exercise Saturday during its second annual Pediatric Health Fair. Hosted by the nursing, physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT) and forestry departments of the university, the fair used games, mazes and more to show children and parents unique ways to live healthy and active lives. Dr. Linda Carl, nursing instructor and faculty sponsor for the event, said everyone learns at the fair.

As 2-month-old Jesse Talbott Jr. sleeps in his fuzzy, one-piece blanket sleeper, nestled - without blankets - in a bassinet, his mother, Jessica Talbott, also sleeps a little easier. That's because Talbott and her husband, Jesse, have taken every precaution to reduce the chance her baby might succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), which claims more than 2,000 American infant lives every year. In order to help reduce such numbers further, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Gail Marie Brown and Lee Edward Callaway were married Saturday, July 12, 2008, at Dahlgren Chapel in Boonsboro. The bride is a physician at Smithsburg Family Medical Center practicing internal medicine and pediatrics. The bridegroom is a manager and systems analyst at Verizon in Hagerstown. They live in Hagerstown.

EASTON - A newborn baby girl found Feb. 17 in a gazebo outside the Memorial Hospital at Easton is doing well and will be released from the hospital later this week, authorities said. Dr. Mark Langfitt, the hospital's vice chief of pediatrics, said the baby as suffering from hypothermia but recovered quickly and does not appear to face any long-term effects. He said he anticipates she will be discharged later this week.

Who can say why it might have happened - when a kindergarten student at a public school in Washington County was accused of sexual harassment? The 5-year-old student allegedly pinched the buttocks of a female classmate in a hallway at Lincolnshire Elementary School on Dec. 8. The incident, however, raises a broader question: What do children at that young of an age really know about sex? They might know more than you think, researchers say. Sexual development begins well before children reach their teenage years, experts say. Kids draw on influences from every direction - from family, media and their peers, and personal experience as they get older.

PITTSBURGH - Dr. Ann E. Thompson was recognized for 28 years as director of critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at a reception in her honor this spring at the new Fairmont Hotel in Pittsburgh. Dr. Thompson is the daughter of Ben and Bette Thompson of Donnybrook Drive in Hagerstown. The event was attended by colleagues from around the nation, family members, friends and pediatric critical care physicians who had been trained in Dr. Thompson's program.

City Hospital MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -Two pediatricians recently joined the medical staff of City Hospital. - Dr. Caroline E. Joe acquired the pediatric practice of Dr. H. Donald Price, who is retiring after 30 years of practice. Joe has been in private practice in North Carolina since 2002. Joe received her medical degree from the Medical School University of Pavia School of Medicine in Pavia, Italy, in 1993. She later completed her pediatric residency at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and served as pediatric chief resident from 2001-2002.