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Medical Notes: How Climate Change May Be Affecting Pregnancies, Aging Out of Foster Care, and How Babies Develop a Self-Image

>> July 10, 2024

Being placed in foster care can be traumatic, but getting out isn’t much better. More and more babies are being born prematurely, and climate change might have something to do with it. We know that babies like to move their hands, but it turns out they might not just be playing.

topics: Child Development| Children| Children and Parenting| Climate Change| Foster Parenting| Infants and Toddlers| News and Headlines| Pregnancy and Child Birth| Research and Clinical Trials

What You Need To Know About Your Baby’s Flat Head

>> May 7, 2023

Peter Taub, a professor of pediatrics, says plagiocephaly ("flat head syndrome") isn’t a syndrome at all and doesn’t cause any neurologic symptoms.

topics: Child Safety| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Consumerism| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Health Care| Neuroscience and Neurology| Parenting Issues| Patient Care and Safety| Pediatrics| Prevention| Public Health and Public Safety| Vulnerable Populations

Medical Notes: March 6, 2022

>> March 6, 2022

Water from private wells could be harming your children. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, except maybe not for people who’ve experienced multiple major disasters. And finally, scientists are one step closer in their search for how to regrow lost limbs.

topics: Child Development| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Environmental Science and Climate Change| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Medical Advancements| Medical Research| Mental Health| Natural Disasters| News and Headlines| Public Health and Public Safety| Research and Clinical Trials| Research and Development| Science| Violence and Abuse| Vulnerable Populations
phobia of needles

Needle Phobia

>> February 6, 2022

Some people who have not yet gotten the Covid vaccine are simply afraid of the needle. Bad childhood experience can keep people from receiving necessary medical treatments. A needle-phobic and a physician explain how parents should discuss injections with their children from a young age.

topics: Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Consumerism| Consumerism and Consumer Safety/Protection| Covid-19 Vaccine| Doctors| Family Medicine| Fears and Phobias| Health Care| Infectious Disease and Vaccination| Public Health| Vaccination

Kids’ Covid Vaccines: Fact and Fiction

>> November 28, 2021

Covid-19 vaccines are now approved for children as young as 5, but while people are afraid of getting the vaccine themselves, they’re even more nervous about getting it for their children. Misinformation is accelerating against use of the vaccine in kids. Experts discuss and correct the most prevalent myths.

topics: Child Safety| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Communication| Consumerism| Covid-19 Pandemic| Covid-19 Vaccine| Crime and Criminal Justice| Debate| Fact or Fiction| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Infectious Disease and Vaccination| Misinformation| Myths| Prevention| Public Health| Vaccination| Viruses
SUDC — Sudden Unexplained Death Of A Child

Sudden Unexplained Death of a Child

>> June 20, 2021

Each year, some 400 U.S. children over age one, most of them toddlers, die for no known reason. Families, longing for answers, often find that their families, friends, and even pediatricians are unfamiliar with this classification of death, or that they even occur. Family members who have lost a child, a medical examiner, and a research expert who has lost a …

topics: Child Safety| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Death and Grief| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Fatality| Health Care| Infants and Toddlers| Medical Research| Parenting Issues| Pediatrics| Public Health| Public Health and Public Safety| Research and Clinical Trials| Science| Trauma| Undiagnosed and Mystery Illness| Vulnerable Populations
Should We Report "Bad Parents?"

Should We Report “Bad Parents?”

>> December 6, 2020

Just about anyone can report a parent to a child abuse hotline. It’s meant to protect children, but often, parents are reported when no abuse or neglect exists in order to retaliate for a divorce or some other grievance. Some parents are reported for merely letting children play outside or walk to school without an adult in attendance, what was once thought …

topics: Child Abuse| Child Safety| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Crime and Criminal Justice| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Law Enforcement and Police| Parenting Issues| Poverty| Public Health and Public Safety| Public Policy and Regulation| Public Safety| Violence and Abuse| Vulnerable Populations
"Flat Head Syndrome" (2020)

“Flat Head Syndrome”

>> November 22, 2020

Since the beginning of the “baby on back” movement to reduce sudden infant death syndrome, many more infants are developing misshapen heads with a flat spot in one place. An expert discusses whether this is serious.

topics: Child Safety| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Consumerism| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Health Care| Neuroscience and Neurology| Parenting Issues| Pediatrics| Prevention| Public Health and Public Safety| Vulnerable Populations
Medical Child Abuse

Medical Child Abuse

>> February 16, 2020

Parents who have a mental illness known as factitious disorder may fake or induce illness in their children to get attention, sometimes taking kids to hundreds of medical visits and deceiving doctors into performing numerous procedures and surgeries. Experts and a parent who got his child out of an abusive situation discuss how the legal & medical system …

topics: Behavioral Science| Child Abuse| Children| Children and Parenting| Children and Youth at Risk| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Health Care| Parenting Issues| Violence and Abuse| Vulnerable Populations

Medical Notes: Week of August 4, 2019

>> August 4, 2019

A kid's picky eating could be a sign of autism. Then, medication dispensing limits are supposed to save money, but that may not be the case for birth control pills. Finally, shrinking screens could be distorting your view of the news.

topics: Biology| Birth Control and Contraception| Children| Children and Parenting| Communication| Economics and Finance| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Medical Research| Military, War and Veterans| News and Headlines| Nutrition and Diet| Pharmacology and Toxicology| Prescription Drugs| Reproductive Health| Research and Clinical Trials| Smartphones| Technology| Treatments

Medical Notes: Week of July 21, 2019

>> July 21, 2019

A study showing gestational diabetes during pregnancy can raise the risk for type 1 diabetes in the child. Then, a specific antibiotic that might help women with symptoms from endometriosis. And finally, gazing down at smartphones is causing the development of "horns" in young adults.

topics: Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance| Biology| Children| Children and Parenting| Diagnoses| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Health Care| Inflammation and Pain| Medical Research| Mental Health| News and Headlines| Pharmacology and Toxicology| Pregnancy and Child Birth| Public Health and Public Safety| Reproductive Health| Research and Clinical Trials| Risk| Science| Smartphones| Technology
The State of the World's Children

The State of the World’s Children

>> June 24, 2019

Each year, the humanitarian organization Save the Children develops a nation-by-nation scorecard on how likely children are to grow up healthy, educated, and safe. The organization’s CEO discusses how most nations have improved the ways children are treated over the past generation, and why the US ranks 36th.

topics: Children| Children and Parenting| Death and Grief| Economics and Finance| Education| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Government and Legislation| Life Expectancy/Lifespan| Malnutrition| Nutrition and Diet| Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations| Poverty| Pregnancy and Child Birth| Public Health| Public Health and Public Safety| Teen Pregnancy
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