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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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What Is Thrush?

Thrush is generally a harmless superficial yeast infection, occurring mainly in the first two months of an infant’s life. Occasionally ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...