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Why Immunize? A Primer for New Parents
Immunizations protect children from serious illness and disease. By making certain that your children receive the proper immunizations at the proper intervals, you can help keep your child from...
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Children with Eating Disorders on the Rise
According to a report released in 2011 by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the number of children, under the age of 12, who were hospitalized for eating disorders rose 119 percent between the years...
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Eating Disorders in Very Young Children
Eating disorders occur most often in young adolescents and teens; however, young children can develop eating disorders as well. Healthcare professionals are seeing a disturbing trend of children as...
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Children and General Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety refers to apprehension, distress, and worry that may result from life experiences or anticipation of future events and experiences. Anxiety becomes a disorder when it reaches pathological...
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Night Terrors – Not the Normal Nightmare
Stages of Sleep and Night Terrors Researchers divide human sleep patterns into two stages: rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (non-REM). Non-REM sleep is further broken down into 4...
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Pinkeye: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention
Your child complains that something is in his eye, but upon close inspection, you can’t see a thing. He continues to rub his eye, which is red and weepy. Your child has conjunctivitis, commonly known...
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Children and Eye Injuries: What to Do
Children can get into all kinds of scrapes and situations, but one of the most terrifying kinds of injuries involves those that affect the eyes. Several types of injuries and conditions can traumatize...
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