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Obese fathers, not just overweight moms, may harm young children’s development: study
Children of obese fathers nearly twice a likely to fail tests measuring ‘personal-social functioning’ by age three compared to children of normal weight dads -
Child heart surgeons adopt ‘threat and error’ system developed by NASA to try and make ...
Doctors at Toronto’s SickKids will now use a safety protocol meant for pilots, a unique experiment that has already produced some striking revelations -
Pregnant women are increasingly using marijuana to treat morning sickness, study finds. That’s not good
Studies indicate that infants who were exposed to marijuana are more likely to be anemic, have lower birth weight, and be placed in neonatal intensive care -
‘The children are in mourning’: Montreal pediatrician’s zeal to protect the abused ends in suicide
Dr. Alain Sirard's devotion to protecting children brought him face-to-face with humanity’s worst side. But that zeal to protect the vulnerable was ultimately his undoing -
An electric shock therapy stops self-harm among the autistic, but at what cost?
To outsiders, it sounds brutal and inhumane. It's aversive therapy of the most extreme kind, which the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture and the U.S. Department of Justice have condemned -
Caring for a son with microcephaly
As a woman who has mothered such a child for the past 53 years, let me share some of the difficulties as well as the joys of parenting a child with microcephaly -
‘I feel like a boy, mom:’ Doctors seeing an increase in preschoolers convinced they are ...
Physicians, ethicists wrestle with how old a child should be to understand their gender identity, and when is too young for transitioning -
How to explain the election, Trump and your fears without panicking the kids
Even before the final results of the U.S. presidential election, the American Psychological Association said, 52 percent of Americans said the race was a very or somewhat significant source of stress -
Could polio drugs treat children with a mysterious paralyzing disease?
Researchers developing drugs against polio and other polio-like viruses say those drugs could potentially be effective against a mysterious, polio-like condition called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) -
Deadly measles complication more common than previously thought
The neurological disorder can lie dormant for years and then is 100 percent fatal. The only way to prevent it is by vaccinating everyone against measles