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 [...]
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 [...]
A study by the Food and Drug Administration of infant-feeding practices found 9 percent of infants were given dietary botanical supplements and teas in their first year of life.
The most common reason mothers fed supplements and teas to their infants were to help with fussiness, digestion, colic and relaxation.
Although these parents fed their infants the [...]
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 [...]
Despite recent advances using checklists and other safety protocols, doctors and hospitals are still committing too many preventable errors according to a recent study. The study found medical mistakes ranging from undergoing the wrong operation at the wrong operating table to undergoing surgery on the wrong side of your body.
A recent Archives of Surgery report [...]
At 37 weeks of pregnancy when the big day is drawing near, when a mother is likely to experience hormone-related anxiety about her baby and a father may have read one too many articles about birth injuries, expecting parents should ask their doctor or midwife about CALM. CALM is a web-based software used to predict [...]
Improving the health of our nation’s children under the age of five in just four categories would likely reduce our future health care expenditures by $65 billion a new study shows.
Researchers report that tobacco exposure, unintentional injury, obesity and mental health are the four greatest problems facing our nation’s youngest. If we can check these [...]
MIT engineers have developed special robots designed to improve arm and leg coordination of children with cerebral palsy.
The robots reduce physical impairment by stimulating neurological development. By guiding a user’s limb when they initiate movement, the robots “teach” the children to move differently. That new movement done repeatedly then stimulates neurological development as the child’s [...]
The Florida Child Injury Lawyer Blog just ran across a fascinating blog post about delaying umbilical cord cutting after birth.
Many people who write about birthing techniques, birth injuries or anything related with childbirth are very opinionated and biased. However, this blog author takes a very even handed approach and evaluates both sides of the argument.
Please [...]
