Another study has shown the dramatic association of children's health problems with vaccines. This survey polled parents of vaccinated and unvaccinated children and compared the incidence of autism, ADHD, asthma, Asperger’s syndrome, and pervasive...
Researchers may have discovered yet another benefit of breastfeeding for children. The association between breastfeeding and bed-wetting was investigated because both have a relationship to developmental progress in children. Breastfeeding has been...
Last week we mentioned that breastfeeding our babies was probably not such a bad idea, especially as those who are introduced to cereals too early are more likely to develop celiac disease.
Each year, thousands of premature babies in intensive care nurseries lose their sight to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease which damages and detaches retina. ...
Doctors who use in-ear infrared devices to take a child’s temperature may be missing fevers that a standard rectal thermometer would have detected.
A reader's 27-month old son is suffering from some learning difficulties, following a serious iron deficiency in his earlier months. What can she do to help him? The first step is to throw all negative comments from doctors out the window, says one...
A recent small study in Atlanta, Georgia showed that many parents either do not know or do not fully understand the dosing instructions for children's medicines. ...
Q:How safe and effective are oral vitamin K preparations? W L, Boston.... ...
The more we research, the more we learn about the importance of breast milk and the start it can give us in life. A new study has found that it might even improve our eyesight.
Four years ago, heavily pregnant with my first daughter, I read a book about childrearing. The Continuum Concept, by Jean Liedloff, tells of the author's excursions to live with a remote tribe (t ...

