[The pediatrician and the telephone].

Approximately half of the phone calls received in the pediatrician's office are telephone consultations or advice requests concerning pathologies. In those cases the pediatrician has to know that his responsibility is involved. Among the rules to be applied in this telephone practice, he must always require that the child be examined when parents call for the second time.

[Is there a consensus among specialists concerning asthma?].

A list of 30 questions--of which 25 were literal translations of the questions asked by R.L. Henry and A.

[Detection of respiratory allergies using the Phadiatop test in children 1 to 6 years of age].

Phadiatop, a new test for detecting hypersensitivity to airborne allergens, was used in 83 children aged 9 months to 6 years with recurrent respiratory manifestations, i.e. recurrent expiratory obstruction and/or recurrent respiratory infections.