(HealthDay)—Most children with special health care needs (CSHCN) with current attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) receive medication treatment or behavioral therapy, according to a study published online March ...
Apr 4, 2015
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Children insured by Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) were more likely to get preventive medical and dental care than privately insured children in a study that compared access and use of health care ...
Nov 16, 2015
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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) require an array of specialized health care services. With these services come higher costs for parents and insurance providers. University of Missouri researchers compared costs ...
Jun 11, 2012
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The first federally funded report to compare children with special health care needs to children without reveals 14 percent to 19 percent of children in the United States have a special health care need and their insurance ...
Dec 6, 2011
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In a follow-up of extremely low-birth-weight children, the rates of chronic health conditions overall, and asthma specifically, did not change between the ages of 8 and 14 years, although the rate of obesity did increase, ...
Jul 26, 2011
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College classes. Dance parties. Happy hours. As social distancing sinks into daily life, people are discovering new and unique ways to do what they need to do remotely.
Apr 2, 2020
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The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special ...
Apr 29, 2012
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While the causes of autism continue to be debated and bandied about, real families who have children with autism spectrum disorders are left to struggle with expensive health care needs. These costs can be devastating - but ...
Jul 16, 2012
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Tobacco smoking has been identified as a major risk factor for developing Coronavirus (COVID-19) and complications that may arise as a result.1 In addition, second-hand smoke increases the risk of acute respiratory infections.2 ...
Apr 1, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Teen and young adult cancer survivors are at increased risk for other cancers later in life, a new study reveals.
Oct 6, 2015
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