NBC News More than 8 percent of children with cancer have unsuspected genetic mutations that could run in their families, researchers reported on Wednesday. These mutations not only put the children at risk of future cancers, but can mean their […]
Steven Reinberg, WebMD An experimental drug shows promise as a treatment for a common and potentially serious illness known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Currently, there is no treatment or vaccine for RSV, which can be deadly for infants and […]
Erin Schumaker, The Huffington Post The horrors juveniles suffer in adults prisons — including high recidivism rates and the abuse they suffer at the hands of correctional officers and fellow prisoners — has been well-documented, in this publication and others. […]
Yvette Brazier, Medical News Today Lazy eye, also called amblyopia, remains the most common cause of visual impairment in children. Amblyopia is poor vision in an eye that did not develop normally during early childhood. It can occur when one […]
Jill Robins, Yahoo Parenting Playdates and birthday parties: things that make me cringe. My two kids make enough mess and noise all by themselves. Then there are the parents, who I may or may not jell with, and the complex […]
Maggie Fox, NBC News American kids are being hurt and killed by the spread of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” pediatricians said Monday. The World Health Organization cautioned that people around the world still don’t understand much about antibiotic resistance, what it means […]
Drew Wood, Fatherly Ever look at your kid’s morning bowl of Cheerios (or their charred Pop Tart, no one’s judging you) and wonder what parents around the world feed their own kids for breakfast? It turns out, all sorts of […]
Aarti Shahani, WNYC Before age 1 (ONE!), nearly half of kids play games or watch videos on a mobile device. That’s according to one recent study of families with young children published in the journal Pediatrics. By the time they’re […]
Emma Brown, The Washington Post The violent arrest of a South Carolina high school student in class last month has triggered new scrutiny of the nation’s school resource officers, whose numbers have increased in recent decades alongside concerns about school […]
Lindsay Carlton, Fox News Most parents would agree that raising happy children is often easier said than done. Are you praising them too much or too little? Are you disciplining them enough? Teaching them the right skills? Trying to find […]
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