Calcium is essential to our health. Our bodies need it to build and maintain strong bones and teeth. Yet many people don't really begin thinking about their calcium intake until they reach later middle age and begin to think about osteoporosis. In the United States, only about half of children under age 5, and the minority of teenage girls and adult women, get enough calcium. Read more...
 

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• Children and Tick Bites
• Meningitis and the New Vaccine
• Teens and Tanning
   
  

Janet Volpe, M.D., joined the Pediatric Urgent Care Center at the Palo Alto Clinic in June. She received her M.D. degree in 1992 from Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as her MPH degree, after graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed an internship and residency at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University Medical Center. She is board certified in pediatrics and speaks medical Spanish.