While summer is a season known for relaxation and carefree living, taking the “lazy days of summer” too literally has its consequences. When the last bell of the school year rings, many kids leave behind valuable opportunities to play and learn. The majority of U.S. children are not getting the daily recommended hours of physical [ Read More ]
Children’s Health articles
Children and adolescents with recurrent or progressive brain tumors will have an opportunity to participate in a new Phase 1 clinical trial conducted by Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin investigating the safety of a novel brain cancer treatment. The survival of pediatric patients with recurrent brain tumors is measured in [ Read More ]
A reddish birthmark that appears on a baby’s skin in the first few weeks after birth is most often harmless, but should be brought to a physician’s attention. While blemishes in babies are rare, in some a red-purple raised birthmark called a “hemangioma” could develop on the face, neck or scalp. Hemangioma is the most [ Read More ]
In a new study published today in JAMA Pediatrics (formerly Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine), Kaiser Permanente researchers found that 49 percent of children ages 2-24 months did not receive all recommended vaccinations, or did not get vaccinated according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices schedule. Kaiser Permanente researchers used the Vaccine Safety [ Read More ]
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has developed key programs to combat pediatric asthma. The disease causes more than 3,500 asthma-related visits each at year at Le Bonheur and is the hospital’s most common diagnosis. In July, the hospital received a $2.9 million Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [ Read More ]
In what may be the biggest breakthrough in muscular dystrophy in years, a patient at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is believed to be the first in the nation with Duchenne muscular dystrophy to have a device implanted to help his heart pump blood to the body long-term. Because 80 percent of boys and men [ Read More ]
Halloween is just around the corner, and although candy consumption is almost unavoidable this time of year, the Academy of General Dentistry(AGD) wants parents and children to know that there are both good and bad candy options, both of which may find their way into children’s trick-or-treat bags this fall. “Of course, dentists do not [ Read More ]
More than half of the nation’s children with autism are overweight, at risk for diabetes or cardiovascular disease, have bone and joint problems or suffer from depression, anxiety and gastrointestinal problems. That alarming statistic was the impetus for a new exercise video for children with autism, hosted by nationally recognized fitness expert Suzanne Gray. Gray, who [ Read More ]
The number of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased nearly 80 percent in the past decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced. Currently, one in 88 children receives an ASD diagnosis, and of those children diagnosed, boys outnumber girls 5-to-1. Janet Farmer, director of academic programs at the University [ Read More ]
Last year, the media revealed the story of the mother who gave her 8-year-old daughter BOTOX injections before a junior beauty pageant. The news created a stir, upsetting many parents. This socially unacceptable and marginally legal act remains outside society’s norm, but there are times when plastic surgery procedures can help a child. Having an [ Read More ]