Articles in Children’s Health
(MedHeadlines) - Findings from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators identify new cancer risks when survivors become adults; underscore the importance of regular cancer screenings.
The largest study yet of …
We’ve long known that breastfeeding benefits a baby in many more ways than just filling his little tummy. The latest issue of Obstetrics and Gynaecology carries details of a study that says breastfeeding is good …
Thirteen-year-old Daniel Hauser has Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer that is generally considered easy to treat with radiation and chemotherapy treatments. His doctor, Dr. James Joyce, prescribed a six-month regimen of the chemotherapy treatments …
Earlier today, Dr. Richard Besser announced the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rethinking its current recommendation for closing schools when students or faculty become sick with the H1N1 influenza virus. Besser …
A report just released by the National Institute on Media and the Family suggests 10% of all American children between 8 and 18 years of age are likely addicted to their video games. The report …
Sometimes it’s an overwhelming sense of stress on the parents’ part. Sometimes it’s the overwhelming press of poverty. And sometimes it’s the overwhelming sense of hopelessness compounded by the absence of humility enough to ask …
The rocket fuel in powdered baby formula is ‘safe,’ according to Haley Curtis Stevens, spokesperson for the International Formula Council, which represents the infant formula industry. Stevens says the recently published study from the US …
Last year, on March 28, Jennifer Latham, 40, of Sanford, Florida, walked into a local hospital maternity ward, dressed like a nurse, took a one-day-old baby from his mother’s arms, and left the hospital with …
American kids are getting more medical conditions once common only in middle-aged adults and the American diet is thought to be largely to blame. The latest, typically adult, diagnosis making the rounds in pediatric …
The top six makers of baby bottles have agreed to stop using bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles after attorneys general in Connecticut, Delaware, and New Jersey asked them to. The industrial plastic has been …
