The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders
2025/26 Edition
This new edition of The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders provides current, understandable medical information, resources, and support services for 213 pediatric disorders. A repeat winner of the National Health Information Awards, this resource guide provides vital information for afflicted children and their support network, including family, friends, and medical professionals.
The disorders and issues covered in this guide have been determined to be most prevalent in the pediatric population, ages 0-18. They include both physical and mental conditions, and range from cancer to nightmares.
This edition has been extensively updated with the latest treatment options and disorder information. The front matter for The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders includes:
- Two glossaries. The first is a guide to medical terminology that provides important
navigational tips and more than 200 commonly used medical prefixes, roots, and suffixes. The second includes medical acronyms, especially as they relate to vaccines. - Guidelines for Obtaining Additional Information and Research. These updated guidelines assist parents and caregivers with information on pediatric specialists, accredited hospitals, approved drugs or medical devices, and clinical trials that are investigating new therapies.
- A valuable list of Disorders by Biologic System.
- American’s Children in Brief, a report from the national Forum on Child and Family
Statistics, details demographics, physical environments, economic conditions, social and
cultural factors, community resources, and health and wellness of America’s children. In
more than 30 pages, the 2024 data is easy-to-understand, and supported by graphs and charts.
This one-stop resource, for professionals and the families they serve, is organized in the following four sections:
Section I — Disorders
This section includes 213 major disorder chapters that comprise more than 266 specific disorders, diseases, or conditions. They are arranged in alphabetical order, from Achondroplasia to Wilson Disease. Each chapter begins with an extensive description, written in understandable language. The descriptions in this eleventh edition have been reviewed by medical professionals to include the most up-to-date methods of diagnoses and treatment. Each description includes: Disorder name and synonyms; Primary symptoms; Physical findings; Related Disorders; Cause: Body system affected; Standard treatment.
Following each description are disorder-specific resources, including Associations, Federal and State Agencies, Support Groups, Libraries, Resource Centers, Research Centers, Web sites, Media Resources and Camps. The more prevalent a disorder is, the more resources there are available.
The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders also includes care centers, medical organizations, and advocacy groups that offer extended information on a great variety of conditions. These combined resources offer the most comprehensive coverage available for the most prevalent pediatric disorders being diagnosed in pediatrician’s offices around the country.
Section II — General Resources
This section includes 931 resources, including Government Agencies, National Associations, State Agencies, Support Groups, Newsletters, Books, Magazines, Camps, and Wish Foundations. These may not be limited to a specific disorder, but offer information and support for categories of disorders.
This main section of The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders includes 9,882 listings. Each listing has updated contact data—address, phone, fax, website, e-mail—and helpful descriptions. Users will find 8,840 phone numbers, 5,275 e-mail addresses, 9,030 websites and 17,246 key executives.
Users will find resources on not only physical pediatric disorders, but also on mental and emotional conditions that affect our younger population. There are also resources that deal with multi-disorder conditions.
Section III — The Human Body
This educational element is comprised of 14 detailed descriptions of body systems or medical categories. This section is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the human body, enabling readers to broaden their understanding of how a particular disorder affects a specific body system(s) and further, how it may relate to the body as a whole. It includes twelve specific body systems, from Cardiovascular to Urologic, plus two additional chapters: Human Cells and Child Growth & Development.
Section IV— Indexes
The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders contains three indexes to help readers access the information from several places:
- Entry Index is an alphabetical listing of all entry names.
- Geographic Index groups listings by state.
- Disorder & Related Term Index is an alphabetical list of pediatric disorders, condition names, synonyms, and related disorders.
The Complete Resource Guide for Pediatric Disorders provides immediate access to information crucial to families and caregivers when coping with children’s illnesses and is a necessary addition to any reference collection.
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