Listen to the new guidelines being reviewed by British doctors that would lower the country’s age limit for transgender patients receiving puberty-blocking drugs. The segment begins at the 34 minute marker.
Each year, many Children’s Hospital Boston patients dress up and go trick-or-treating throughout the hospital. The children love to decorate their bags and the inpatient floors in spooky themes. The staff get in on the fun too. Here are some of today’s costumed kids.
Do you have Halloween photos of your children you’d like to share? Email them to us—and tell us their names—at thrive@childrens.harvard.edu and we’ll include them in our gallery.
Halloween. For kids, it’s a once-a-year opportunity to dress up as someone (or something) else for a night, adventure around the neighborhood after dark and, of course, stockpile candy. But along with the thrills comes some serious considerations. We talked to Children’s psychiatrist Stuart Goldman, MD, about appropriate costumes, scary decorations and how to make the candy last. [click to continue…]
by Children's Hospital Boston staff on October 30, 2009
Media expert Michael Rich, MD, MPH, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, answers your questions about media use. Last week, he discussed whether you should take your child to see Where the Wild Things Are.
Here’s this week’s question:
Q: I’ve been hearing about the high school in NJ where older girls are putting freshman girls’ names on a “slut list”—and the worst part is that being on the list is considered a good thing! I can’t help thinking that all the sex in the media is to blame for girls thinking it’s a badge of honor, but maybe I’m overreacting. I want to talk to my 13 year old daughter about this, but what should I say?
-Suspicious of Sexy Media in Princeton, NJ [click to continue…]
by Children's Hospital Boston staff on October 29, 2009
In a special report from the Children’s Hospital Boston’s Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Children’s Anne Stack, MD, about what precautions the hospital is taking to prepare for a potential influx of flu patients.
Ron Samuels, MD, MPH, associate medical director of the Children’s Hospital Primary Care Center, was interviewed last night on New England Cable News about how quickly and widely H1N1 can spread compared to the seasonal flu, the importance of mass vaccination and how Children’s is having a high volume of patients with flu-like illness in its emergency room.
Also in the United States, manufacturing difficulties are delaying the delivery of the H1N1 vaccine. The CDC said that only 16.1 million out of an expected 30 million doses had been shipped. While H1N1 vaccine shipment is delayed, increases in school closures, hospitalization rates, and 11 more pediatric influenza-related deaths point to an intensifying pandemic throughout the US.
After her daughter was born with a non-cancerous tumor obstructing her left eye, Katie Lane spent an afternoon lurching around her Waltham home, her hand blocking one eye, imagining life with monocular vision. With 20/20 eyesight, neither she nor her husband, Dan, even owned reading glasses. Now they were faced with the possibility that their daughter would be partially blind.
Little Kyleigh’s right eye was perfect: pale blue and brimming with mischief. But much of her left eye was covered by a choristoma, a tumor made up of normal tissue that formed in the wrong spot. [click to continue…]
Surgeons put an artificial bone in a 3-year-old’s arm. Parents can use these guidelines for letting their diabetic kids enjoy Halloween’s treats.
Multiple studies show how pregnant women getting the flu vaccine is an important way to protect their babies. Sesame Street characters Elmo and Rosita show your child the right way to sneeze. Last weekend, Emergency Department doctors at Children’s began seeing increases in what they think are swine flu cases and Judy Palfrey, MD, FAAP, comments on the Obama girls getting the flu shot. Have you ever wondered how the flu virus spreads? Watch this video to see how.
Halloween. For kids, it’s a once-a-year opportunity to dress up as someone (or something) else for a night, adventure around the neighborhood after dark and, of course, stockpile candy. But along with the thrills comes some serious considerations. We talked to Children’s psychiatrist Stuart Goldman, MD, about appropriate costumes, scary decorations and how to make the candy last. 
Media expert Michael Rich, MD, MPH, director of the 
Here are this week’s H1N1 updates from the 
After her daughter was born with a non-cancerous tumor obstructing her left eye, Katie Lane spent an afternoon lurching around her Waltham home, her hand blocking one eye, imagining life with monocular vision. With 20/20 eyesight, neither she nor her husband, Dan, even owned reading glasses. Now they were faced with the possibility that their daughter would be partially blind.
