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Does your child text constantly? Well, there’s no need to worry anymore about it affecting their ability to spell, according to Chatspeak.
It turns out that many schools have few or no nurses to respond to flu outbreaks. How will this affect your child?
Even though there’s been a rallying cry for parents to get their kids vaccinated against the H1N1 flu, many parents have not been convinced.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare is recalling certain lots of Children’s Tylenol and Infants’ Tylenol after bulk raw material was found to be tainted with B. cepacia bacteria.
We already knew that having babies sleep on their backs can cause head flattening, but now there’s evidence that head flattening is linked to ear infections.
Have you thought about banking your baby’s umbilical cord blood? You may think twice after seeing how much it costs.
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study saying that less that 40 percent of the population of the United States got vaccinated against the seasonal flu last year. That number in and of itself is surprising, given that the flu kills an astonishing 36,000 people every year, putting it squarely in the top 10 annual causes of death in the United States. The distinction between the flu and other top 10 causes, like heart disease and cancer, is that there’s something incredibly easy and quick you can do to keep the flu at bay: get vaccinated.
So you would think that health care workers – the hundreds of thousands of us who spend our time at the bedside, in the operating room, escorting patients to appointments, cleaning hospital rooms, serving food and on and on – would do the easy thing to slow the spread of the flu: get vaccinated and spare ourselves and the patients we spend time with the potentially deadly ramifications of getting the flu. Full story »
Q: I have a question about my five month old daughter and TV. She likes to watch E/I cartoons. Is it ok for me to let her watch them when I have things I need to do around the house? If allowing her to watch cartoons is not good for her, what are other activities I can do to keep her occupied so I can get things done? Full story »
Groundbreaking new guidelines about how to treat children with Gender Identity Disorder have been issued by the Endocrine Society. They suggest that at the first signs of puberty, physicians delay the onset of puberty and wait until the child is approximately 16 to begin any sort of hormone therapy involved in a gender transition. Full story »
Inserting contact lenses into the eyes of an infant sounds like a daunting task, but Susan Purcell, mother of 5-year-old Daniel and 1-year-old Joshua, didn’t have many options. When Daniel was 3 months old, David Hunter, MD, PhD, ophthalmologist-in-chief at Children’s Hospital Boston, told Susan that without contacts Daniel would be blind. Full story »
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A General Accountability Office investigation found that the Agriculture Department didn’t always make sure states and schools were notified promptly about suspect food distributed through the federal school lunch and breakfast programs, which serve 30 million students.
Do you want a reason to spend more time with your family and help curb their risk for obesity? We’re in the middle of Turnoff Week, which is September 20 to 26.
Do you know or have a child with a physical disability who wants to be more involved in sports and recreation? Northeast Passage has been delivering disability-related health promotion and adapted sports programs throughout New England for almost two decades.
Last week, Massachusetts lawmakers proposed a new state bill aimed at minimizing concussion injuries in youth athletes that would force coaches, trainers, parent volunteers and others affiliated with school athletic programs to be trained in recognizing potentially concussed athletes. The bill would also require physician authorization in order for an athlete to return to competition post-concussion.
Here, we ask Bill Meehan, MD, of the Concussion Clinic in Children’s Division of Sports Medicine about concussions and how the legislation can help student athletes. Full story »
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Groundbreaking new guidelines about how to treat children with Gender Identity Disorder have been issued by the 
Here are this week’s H1N1 updates from the 
Last week, Massachusetts lawmakers proposed a new state bill aimed at minimizing concussion injuries in youth athletes that would force coaches, trainers, parent volunteers and others affiliated with school athletic programs to be trained in recognizing potentially concussed athletes. The bill would also require physician authorization in order for an athlete to return to competition post-concussion.
