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1 L'immunotherapie orale est une option therapeutique pour les nourrissons et les enfants d'age prescolaire qui ont des allergies alimentaires, comme solution de rechange a l'evitement des aliments en cause [...]

1 Oral immunotherapy is a treatment option for infants and preschoolers with food allergy, as an alternative to food avoidance Food allergy is associated with substantial medical and psychosocial burden. [...]

M. Stephen Doherty's Editor's Note in the spring 2007 issue of Watercolor really surprised me. I can't believe Watercolor and American Artist are criticized for presenting the instructional information they [...]

The article offers step-by-step instructions for making a tapered Viking Knit bracelet.

The objective of this study was to determine whether children with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis demonstrated cognitive and psychomotor delays when compared with a standardized population sample. This was the initial assessment of a larger prospective study, which involved 21 subjects with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis mean age, 10.9 months and 42 subjects with plagiocephaly without synostosis mean age, 8.4 months. Each child was assessed using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development—II BSIDII for cognitive and psychomotor development before therapeutic intervention surgery for craniosynostosis and moldinghelmet therapy for plagiocephaly without synostosis. The distribution of the scores was divided into four groups accelerated, normal, mild delay, and significant delay. The distributions of the mental developmental index MDI and the psychomotor developmental index PDI were then compared with a standardized Bayley's agematched population, using Fisher's exact chisquare test. Within the craniosynostosis group, the PDI scores were significantly different from the standardized distribution p< 0.001. With regard to the PDI scores, 0 percent of the subjects in the craniosynostosis group were accelerated, 43 percent were normal, 48 percent had mild delay, and 9 percent had significant delay. In contrast, the MDI scores were not statistically different p0.08. Within the group with plagiocephaly without synostosis, both the PDI and MDI scores were significantly different from the normal curve distribution p< 0.001. With regard to the PDI scores, 0 percent of the subjects in the group with plagiocephaly without synostosis were accelerated, 67 percent were normal, 20 percent had mild delay, and 13 percent had significant delay. With regard to the MDI scores, 0 percent of the subjects in this group were accelerated, 83 percent were normal, 8 percent had mild delay and 9 percent had significant delay. This study indicates that before any intervention, subjects with singlesuture syndromic craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis demonstrate delays in cognitive and psychomotor development. Continued postintervention assessments are needed to determine whether these developmental delays can be ameliorated with treatment. Plast. Reconstr. Surg.108 1492, 2001.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including an appreciation of the Drawing Highlights issue, an acknowledgment of the importance of the "American Artist" magazine to artists and art students, and a positive comment on M. Stephen Doherty's article on "Watercolor" and "American Artist."