Melissa Tamura writes about valuable habits to promote kids’ physical and mental health.
Melissa Tamura writes about valuable habits to promote kids’ physical and mental health.
Childhood cancer survivors are capable of having healthy babies, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Boys as well as girls feel the impact of the media on body image, but boys may turn to steroid use. How can parents reduce this effect?
Antidepressants used during pregnancy may have an impact on newborn health and intensive care admissions, according to a JAMA study.
For fans, sports can be an enjoyable distraction; for participants, the elements involved range from physical skills development to having your identity become connected to a larger team or entity.
Over the past couple of years, parents have been inundated with information about obesity in children. It is now well known that obesity, which used to be a 1 in 10 phenomenon with regard to children, has grown to 1 in 3 in the U.S. and 1 ...
CHICAGO – Women with a family history of breast cancer appear to have a lower risk of developing the disease before menopause if they have ever breastfed a child, according to a report in ...
CHICAGO – Taking opioid drugs without a prescription appears relatively common among high school seniors, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives ...
CHICAGO – Sedentary behaviors such as TV viewing and “screen time” involving computer use, videos and video games appear to be associated with elevated blood pressure in children, independent of body composition, according to ...
When your doctor tells you that you have a serious medical condition, it's stressful. When you have kids, it can be even more so as you and your partner debate about how much the kids should know, along with when ...