February 10, 2016,
News & Features
Trying to raise a healthy child can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be.
The most effective discipline typically doesn’t involve any punishment at all, but instead focuses on positive reinforcement when children are being good.
A small group of scientists now say that mental exercises of a certain kind can teach children to become more self-possessed at earlier ages.
What does it mean to be a manic-depressive child?
A Harlem woman apparently did not check with her foster-care agency before placing a medicinal patch on the neck of a 6-year-old girl, who later died.
Talking points for patients and physicians.
Mexico’s public health authorities have concluded that the girls are suffering from collective hysteria.
In Mary V. Relling's office in St. Jude Children's Research Hospital sits a small ceramic statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of impossible causes. Dr. Relling, the head of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at St. Jude, has a fondness for impossible causes.
The parental influence on a child’s weight goes beyond the specifics of food, according to a new study.
With summer in full swing and clothing at a yearly minimum, concern about weight is naturally at an annual maximum. You may wonder why we just keep becoming fatter despite all the diets millions of Americans have latched onto in recent decades. Don't any of them work? And, if not, why not?...
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