Pediatrics
Teach Your Little One’s Proper Hand Washing
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Cleaning your hands is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family from getting sick. Handwashing not only helps you from catching germs but spreading them, too – especially to others who may be more at risk for illness. Hand hygiene is an important lifelong habit to teach kids for staying healthy.…
Primary Care Doctors who are Moms
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Our “Mom Docs” are Accepting New Patients. Choosing a primary care doctor for yourself or your family is an important first step in managing your and your family’s healthcare. Your primary care physician is your medical home base. Your primary care doctor is who you visit for most of your medical needs, including routine screenings…
How to discuss diet and exercise among the kids
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More than 90% of girls – 15 to 17 years – want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance, with body weight ranking the highest. Discussing diet becomes a very delicate conversation as evident by the rates of increasing body image problems in the United States, among both boys and girls. Yet,…
Concerns & Questions About Vaccines
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At River Bend Medical Associates, we believe in preventative medicine. Preventative medicine is the understanding that many serious diseases can be avoided entirely if their causes are addressed long in advance. Preventative medicine typically includes tools in order to attack problems from multiple angles: recommending lifestyle choices, encouraging annual physicals, scheduling screenings for certain diseases…
Your Child and their Healthcare Rights in California
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River Bend Medical Associates is a family medical practice, which means that our staff has the profound joy and privilege to watch the children we treat grow up into young men and women. But as these growing boys and girls are accompanied by their parents to appointments over the years, there inevitably comes a time…
Senate Bill 277 Frequently Asked Questions
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See these questions and answers in Spanish These FAQs were last updated on 5/25/2016 (this included edits to question 19). This content is considered current until any future update is made. Immunization Requirements for 2015 1. In 2015 and future years, which vaccines are required to enter child care or school in California? For child…
