{"id":119352,"date":"2009-12-31T08:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2009-12-31T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:08:03","slug":"top-stories-on-thrive-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/119352","title":{"rendered":"Top stories on Thrive: 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3786\" title=\"stockphotopro_26425CVT_no_title\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/stockphotopro_26425CVT_no_title-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"stockphotopro_26425CVT_no_title\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a whirlwind of a year. Since launching this blog in July, we&#8217;ve had more than 230,000 visitors, many of whom have left thought-provoking comments on our posts.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve enjoyed bringing you personal stories and expert insight about current pediatric health topics, and we hope you continue reading us in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>What were our readers most interested in this year? Our most widely read stories range from a video series about defeating a milk allergy to a news report about the discredited Baby Einstein videos. Did you miss any of our most popular posts? We revisit them below.<span id=\"more-3775\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>H1N1 was by far the most popular topic on Thrive. We posted <em>44 different articles<\/em> on the subject. Our most read H1N1 blog asked the question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/should-my-child-get-the-swine-flu-h1n1-shot\/\">Should my child get the swine flu (H1N1) shot?<\/a>&#8221; This post triggered an outpouring of reader comments, from both hesitant parents weighing the pros and cons, and vocal vaccine proponents. To see a complete list of Thrive&#8217;s H1N1 stories, click <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/category\/h1n1-swine-flu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This heartbreaking story written by a mother about her daughter and <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/one-mothers-story-shaken-baby-syndrome\/\">shaken baby syndrome<\/a> was a wake-up call for us all. Readers were both sympathetic to her plight and also outraged; a sensitive topic, this post received a lot of passionate feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brett Nasuti, an 11-year-old Children\u2019s patient, was born allergic to 15 foods. Thrive readers got to tag along as he went through a milk exposure desensitization<strong> <\/strong>trial to cure his milk allergy\u2014the first of its kind in the country\u2014 by watching this video series. Will Brett ever get to eat pizza and drink milk with his cookies? Watch the first of Brett&#8217;s video series <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/a-cure-for-milk-allergies\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Children&#8217;s media expert, Michael Rich, MD, MPH, addresses Disney&#8217;s precedent-setting move offering <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/disney-to-give-back-money-parents-spent-on-baby-einstein-videos\/\">refunds on the <em>Baby Einstein<\/em><\/a> DVDs they claimed promoted better brain development in infants. A media expert, Rich contributes <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/category\/ask-the-mediatrician-featured\/\">a weekly post about children and media. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/obsession-and-risk-taking-what-new-moon-tells-us-about-how-teens-think-romance-should-be\/\">Twilight <\/a>phenomenon has hit teens and pre-teens worldwide. Claire McCarthy, MD, gives suggestions for how parents should address the main themes of this book series with their children. McCarthy, a pediatrician, writes <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/category\/claire-mccarthy-md\/\">regular posts for Thrive about everything from BPA to childhood stress. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One mother tells the shocking story of how <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/one-mothers-story-how-strep-throat-attacked-my-childs-brain\/\">strep throat attacked her child&#8217;s brain<\/a>, causing symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder.\u00a0 Many other parents wrote in to Thrive, saying they had experienced the same thing. It&#8217;s a scary story, but by sharing, this family helped others feel like they weren&#8217;t so alone.<\/li>\n<li>We also talked a lot about epilepsy this year. We recently shared the video and first-person story of a young woman whose seizures are being controlled by a <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/one-patients-story-how-brain-stimulation-is-keeping-my-epileptic-seizures-at-bay\/\">novel brain stimulation technique<\/a>. We also heard from neurologist Frances Jensen, whose work studying the causes and potential treatments of epilepsy was featured in a <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/one-patients-story-how-brain-stimulation-is-keeping-my-epileptic-seizures-at-bay\/\">60 Minutes story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Is there anything we didn&#8217;t cover this year that you&#8217;d like us to? 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Since launching this blog in July, we&#8217;ve had more than 230,000 visitors, many of whom have left thought-provoking comments on our posts. We&#8217;ve enjoyed bringing you personal stories and expert insight about current pediatric health topics, and we hope you continue reading us in 2010. 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