Annual administration of a second dose of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine five months after the initial dose results in fewer hospitalizations and deaths, according to a study published ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Most parents, educators and policymakers agree that children should eat healthy foods. However, our peer-reviewed paper suggests the strategy adults often use to achieve that can sometimes backfire. Fortunately, there's an ...
Mar 26, 2024
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It's a weeknight, parents rush through the door from work, grab a snack, and then speed off in various directions to children's extracurricular activities. As they do, they are managing tired and hungry kids as they all move ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor's office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks them with one vaccine after ...
Mar 26, 2024
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In the United States this year alone, there will be an anticipated 2,001,140 new cancer cases—leading to an estimated 611,720 related deaths. That's 5,480 new cases and 1,680 deaths every day. And, according to a recent ...
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Every year, thousands of children and adolescents aged 0–18 across Australia present to an emergency department (ED) or are hospitalized for an injury or poisoning incident. Injury hospitalizations are the third leading ...
Apr 18, 2024
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In the space of three days, there have been two devastating knife attacks in Sydney. Your child may have seen these on the news or social media. Or they might be hearing about it from friends or at school.
Apr 16, 2024
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Changes to the federal program that helps pay for groceries for low-income moms and their young children means that soon these families will have access to more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, U.S. health officials said ...
Apr 9, 2024
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Australia is facing a whooping cough outbreak. Some 2,799 cases were recorded in the first three months of 2024. Cases are highest in Queensland and New South Wales, with more than 1,000 recorded in each state.
Apr 5, 2024
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New research carried out by Kent's Center for Health Services Studies as part of the Health Behavior of School Age Children Survey (HBSC) for England has found that cyberbullying among school-aged children has risen, with ...
Apr 4, 2024
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