Dr. Andrew Michael Tershakovec MD
Pediatrician
1949 Country Club Dr Huntingdon Valley PA, 19006About
Dr. Andrew Tershakovec is a pediatrician practicing in Huntingdon Valley, PA. Dr. Tershakovec is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Tershakovec diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Tershakovec can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 1983
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Onset of adolescent eating disorders. Dieting may be an early sign, rather than a cause, of eating disorder.
- Nutrition interventions in childhood for the prevention of chronic diseases in adulthood.
- Diet quality of young children who received nutrition education promoting lower dietary fat.
- Persistent hypercholesterolemia is associated with the development of obesity among girls: the Bogalusa Heart Study.
- Ethnicity, insurance type, and follow-up in a pediatric weight management program.
- Acupuncture for the treatment of obesity: a review of the evidence.
- Behavior therapy and sibutramine for the treatment of adolescent obesity: a randomized controlled trial.
- HIV-related lipodystrophy and related factors.
- Obesity during childhood and adolescence augments bone mass and bone dimensions.
- Psychological considerations in pediatric weight management.
- Calcium and dairy intake and measures of obesity in hyper- and normocholesterolemic children.
- Efficacy and safety of rofecoxib 12.5 mg and celecoxib 200 mg in two similarly designed osteoarthritis studies.
- Treatment of patients with osteoarthritis with rofecoxib compared with nabumetone.
- Rofecoxib 12.5 mg, rofecoxib 25 mg, and celecoxib 200 mg in the treatment of symptomatic osteoarthritis: results of two similarly designed studies.
- Efficacy and safety of etoricoxib 30 mg and celecoxib 200 mg in the treatment of osteoarthritis in two identically designed, randomized, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority studies.
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