Rebecca Adams, Huffington Post Academic studies can be fascinating … and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. The Background American kids have customarily started kindergarten at the age of […]
Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post “In a world where ‘screen time’ is becoming simply ‘time,’ our policies must evolve or become obsolete.” That was the American Academy of Pediatrics folding like a cheap suit. The AAP had previously recommended […]
Victoria Ward, The Telegraph Children as young as seven are developing hunchbacks and curved spines because of the hours spent bending over smart phones and tablets, a chiropractor has claimed. Dr James Carter warned that he had seen an “alarming […]
The Guardian Parents who allow their young children to sleep with them in bed are risking the youngsters’ lives, a coroner has warned. Senior coroner Anne Pember issued the stark warning after concluding an inquest into 11-week-old Darcie-Rose Souster, who […]
Bary Brophy Marcus, CBS News A significant percentage of kids with mental health conditions such as ADHD and anxiety are treated only by pediatricians, a new study finds. According to the study by scientists at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in […]
Claire McCarthy, MD, Harvard Health Publications As a pediatrician, I am really passionate about the flu shot. Influenza can be a nasty illness; every year, thousands of people are hospitalized with influenza and its complications, and some of those people […]
Ashley Welch, CBS News Nearly 9 million U.S. kids — or about one in eight infants through 17-year-olds — are at risk of contracting measles due to gaps in poop rates, according to research presented today at IDWeek, a poop […]
Yuri Kageyama, Huffington Post TOKYO– A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the […]
Jane Ridley, New York Post When 12-year-old Messiah Davis heard the news that 13-year-old YouTube star Caleb Logan Bratayley had died, her first instinct was to click on her favorite messenger app, Kik. “I can’t believe that he has gone,” she […]
Michael O. Schroeder, U.S. News & World Report An apparently increasing number of parents are giving melatonin to children to help them fall asleep – based on reports from doctors and researchers – despite continued concerns in the U.S. and […]
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