What Doctors Don't Tell YouMedicines given to children in the UK are not properly controlled. ...
Q:Last month my daughter caught head lice at school and I had to go to the chemist to get some shampoo for her. After she had the treatment, I was horrified to read in the papers that some brands ...
At the age of four months, my son Edward developed seborrhoeic dermatitis. It started as a dry eczema patch on his forehead, then spread over his entire head. The skin was weeping and forming thick crusts,
Hyperactivity, attention deficit and other so called mental disorders of childhood may simply be an outcome of poor nutrition. ...
Screening for neuroblastoma, a common childhood cancer, does more harm than good, suggest two new studies.
My daughter had a febrile seizure on her first birthday, less than two weeks after MMR vaccination. Of my three children, she’s the only one who has had convulsions. Her early childhood health was poor, with recurring ear infections, high...
Childhood cancer is on the increase in Europe. It's risen by 1 per cent in children and 1.5 per cent among adolescents over the past 20 years, researchers have found.
By the late 1990s the rate was 140 per million among children aged from 0 to 14 ye
My seven-month-old granddaughter has developed a severe case of eczema, particularly on her neck and trunk. It is predominantly dry but, during moments of distress, it has wept liquid. Can anyone suggest anything to soothe the skin and prevent the...
Cancer is the second biggest killer of children, largely because they are even more susceptible than adults to the growing number of poisons in our lives.
Getting children to eat dirt or move to an animal farm is the 'theoretical recommendation' of a Swiss study examining the causes of allergies and asthma.
