The use of antipsychotic drugs for very young children with behavior problems approximately doubled between 1999-2001 and 2007. Yet fewer than half of these children received a mental health assessment, a psychotherapy visit, or a visit with a psychiatrist while taking these medications, reveals a new study.
These findings raise safety concerns, note the researchers. They [...]
The nation’s leading pediatrician’s group now says toddlers should remain in rear-facing car seats until the age of 2, rather than the previous age requirement of 12 months.
In a new policy published in the April 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online March 21), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises parents to keep their toddlers [...]
Play time for babies and toddlers should be fun for both the young ones and their parents.
But for 250,100 children in 2009, play time stopped being fun as they were treated for toy related injuries at hospitals, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. That same year, 12 children died from toy-related injuries.
Most (46 percent) [...]
Much care should be taken when using x-rays on pregnant women and infants because of the potential for a slight increase in the risk of children developing cancer, a new study says.
The study is consistent with what doctors have long suspected, and why women of childbearing age are always asked about the possibility of pregnancy [...]
