Is it dangerous for kids to sleep with the lights on? Lots of interesting news has been coming out of the 2004 Children with Leukemia conference in London. We're making great progress in leukemia, but also falling behind. Even though cure rates are...
What can take otherwise vibrant, healthy teens and permanently give them the lung capacities of 50-year-olds? Air pollution! Perhaps spare the air days should be called spare the children days. The air in some cities is so dirty that it hinders...
Changes in the home environment can be as powerful as medications in treating asthma, according to an exciting study in the September 9, 2004 New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers in the Inner-City Asthma Study Group followed almost 1,000...
Asthma in children is increasing around the globe. It's not unusual for it to be a country's number one reason for a child to be hospitalized. Researchers from Australia (a continent where asthma is the leading cause of childhood hospitalization)...
Babies hear dramatically different things in their two different ears, according to a startling study published in the September 10, 2004 Science. This could change our understanding of the fundamentals of hearing. We've known for some time that the...
Wouldn't it be great to have an effective lice treatment that didn't require marathon housecleaning, obsessive nit-combing, or dousing in toxic pesticides? A new treatment developed by Menlo Park dermatologist Dale Lawrence Pearlman may be a dream...
A concerned father recently contacted me about the no-added-mercury flu vaccine. He had called the manufacturers who admitted that there were still trace amounts of mercury in the vaccine. He wanted to know from me whether there was a brand...
It seems like kids these days get so many shots. One of the recent additions to the routine vaccine schedule is the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV or Prevnar). Pneumococcal bacteria are the leading bacterial cause of ear infections in the...
Together, more than 400 brave parents have given us an invaluable treasure: they have shared with us the painful, intimate wisdom they learned going though a devastating personal journey. Learning that your child is terminally ill from cancer is a...
