It can be heart-wrenching for a parent to see their children have pain from a medical procedure and not be able to stop the pain.
According to the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, parents can do several things to help a child with pain from a procedure:
Stay with your child during the pain. This is [...]
A new generation of safer cribs is now for sale in retail stores across the country, thanks to new crib safety standards approved by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The new mandatory crib standards, approved unanimously on Dec. 15, 2010, are the most stringent crib safety standards in the world. As of June 28, 2011, [...]
A new study reveals that young children experience high levels of pain in their wrists and fingers following long term use of gaming devices and mobile phones, indicating that excessive gaming may negatively impact joint health.
The study, involving 257 students, highlights that a higher degree of pain was experienced with the use of gaming devices [...]
Extremely premature babies fed human donor milk are less likely to develop a dangerous intestinal condition than babies fed a standard premature infant formula derived from cow’s milk, according to new research.
Only one of the 29 infants who received human milk developed the dangerous intestinal condition necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and recovered without surgery, compared with [...]
The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending that chemical-management policy in the United States be revised to protect children and pregnant women and to better protect other populations.
Since the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) was passed in 1976, tens of thousands of new chemicals have been developed for widespread use with little oversight or testing [...]
Computed tomography examinations of children in hospital emergency departments increased fivefold from 1995 to 2008, highlighting the need for appropriate use and interpretation of these exams, a new study shows.
The number of pediatric emergency department visits that included a computerized tomography or CT examination increased from roughly 330,000 in 1995 to 1.65 million in 2008, [...]
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 [...]
