The latest poll on children’s oral health shows many parents have misconceptions about how to prevent tooth decay in their children and don’t know of the free dental services available.
People with facial difference often develop strategies for smoothing over social awkwardness, such as ways of introducing the issue into conversation early or using humour to deflect attention.
Impetigo happens when itching causes the skin to break and let in disease-causing bacteria.
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While school sores – or impetigo – is a treatable condition, if left untreated it can lead to much more serious illness such as kidney and heart disease.
Children often wait more than a day for a stroke diagnosis.
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Around 300 babies and children are diagnosed with a stroke in Australia each year. But these can be diagnosed too late with devastating and life-long consequences.
All brain tumours are associated with significant sickness and death, even if they are benign.
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Leukaemia used to be a death sentence. Now, the survival rate for the most common form in children is 85%. We can apply similar strategies to how we approach childhood brain cancer.
Palliative care specialists also need to pay attention to a sick child’s siblings.
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While there are similarities in the general principles of palliative care provided to children and adults, there are also key differences.
There’s lots going on in the lives of four-year-old boys, including how to regulate their emotions. Let’s not blame their hormones.
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Some parents think their four-year-old boy’s emotional outbursts and aggressive behaviour can be blamed on their hormones. Here’s why that’s a myth.
A pair of identical twins. The one on the right has OCD, while the one on the left does not.
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It can be very hard for people to accept that they – or their family member – are not to blame for their mental illness. Seeing the evidence in a scan can make a difference.
Repeated ear infections and prolonged episodes of glue ear can result in permanent hearing loss.
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As Canadian kids head back to school this week, many will be hungry. Lacking fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, they will suffer mood problems, disease and low academic performance.
Primary school-aged boys and girls can play in mixed teams until they reach high school, our research suggests.
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Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
Supporters outside the now-abandoned case in the British High Court, rallying for infant Charlie Gard to travel to the US for experimental treatment.
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As the latest controversy about tunnel exhaust stacks and respiratory health plays out in the media, some community members are proposing solutions that just don’t make sense.
Campers at Twitch and Shout, a camp for teenagers with Tourette, in Winder, Georgia, say goodbye in this 2014 file photo.
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There’s more to Tourette syndrome than swearing and shouting. Over the last several years, many life-altering treatments of this tic disorder have become available to patients and their families.
Children don’t always want to eat what’s in front of them.
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Having trouble getting your kids to eat? Here are six things you could do at the table, and before, to make meal times a bit less stressful.
Some women, especially with diabetes, are recommended to express milk while still pregnant and to save it for their newborn. But it’s not for everyone.
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Hospitals sometimes recommend women express milk towards the end of their pregnancies. But it’s not suitable for all.
Displaced children, like these in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, are remarkably resilient but not all thrive in their new countries. Here’s how we can help them.
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