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Why Your Child Needs a Hearing and Vision Check
School bells will be ringing again soon, and with that sound comes the time for children to look, listen and ...
When Your Family Pet Dies
Losing a family pet may be your child’s first experience with death. Helping her through this very hard time can ...
When Your Child Limps
Limping can be caused by something as simple as an object in a child’s shoe or a blister on a ...
When "Do Not Eat" Gets Eaten
Take yourself back to that time when you were a super-curious explorer younger than age 6. You touched and tasted ...
When Allergies Attack...
Could that sniffle be allergies? Respiratory allergies tend to last for a long time. It’s as if your child’s cold ...
What Is Thrush?
Thrush is generally a harmless superficial yeast infection, occurring mainly in the first two months of an infant’s life. Occasionally ...
What's a Wart and What to Do
Warts are common in about 10 percent of children and are caused by a virus, most commonly the human papillomavirus ...
What Parents Need to Know about Child Abuse
While most parents will never actually be abusers, and most children will never be abused, it is still important to ...
What Is Osgood-Schlatter Disease?
Even though it sounds a bit ominous, Osgood-Schlatter disease is a common overuse condition that causes pain and swelling below ...