
Nutrition and Health
- "Soft" Teeth: Cavities Waiting to Happen
- 10 Ways to A Healthier New Year: Tips to Keep Your Family Safe and Happy
- 20 Questions: What to Ask Your Pediatrician
- A Brain Boost: Developing a Child's Mind Through Food
- Actions Speak Louder Than Colds: A Mom's Advice on Surviving Flu Season
- Ah-choo! When the Family Pet Makes Your Child Sneeze
- A Healthier Year: Tips From the American Academy of Pediatrics
- A Prescription Primer: A Guide to Commonly Prescribed Medications for Children
- April Showers, May Flowers – and Allergies: How to Beat the Springtime Sniffles
- Best Foot Forward: Healthy Feet Matter to Children
- Beware: Boredom Triggers Eating Among Children: Texas Children's Specialist Recommends Good Summer Snacks
- Boo-Boos, Bruises and Bumps: Common Skin Problems in Children
- Boy Scouts of America Recognizes National Nutrition Month: Nation's Leading Youth Organization Promotes Healthy Lifestyles Through Various Programs and Tips
- Bracing for the Big Day: Good Hygiene Habits for a Healthy Smile After Braces
- Brain Nutrients: An Excerpt from Brain Food for Kids
- Breathe Easy: Asthma Is a Treatable Illness
- Bug Bites: Prevention for Those Itching for Insect Bite Relief
- Caring for Common Skin Injuries: First Aid for Cuts, Scrapes and Bruises
- Carrying the Weight: Helping Your Overweight Child
- Celiac Disease: Understanding This Autoimmune Disorder
- Chicken Pox: No Longer an Inevitable Rite of Passage
- Childcare and Illness: Keeping Kids Healthy in Daycare
- Children's Dental Emergencies: A Parent's Guide to Chips, Fractures and Tooth Avulsions
- Cigarette Smoke is a Danger in the Air: What Are the Effects of Secondhand Smoke?
- Combating Allergies: Helping Your Child Get a Good Night's Sleep
- Combating Allergies: Helping Your Child Get a Good Night's Sleep
- Coping With Food Allergies: Helpful Hints From Specialists at Texas Children's Hospital
- Diagnosis: Diabetes: Children Get Diabetes Too
- Dining Dilemmas? 10 Parent-proven Solutions for Mealtime Battles
- Don't Leave It to Luck: Learn Infant/Child CPR
- Down in the Dumps: Dealing With Childhood Depression
- Dr. Mother Nature: Natural Healing for Kids
- Energy Foods: Healthy Fuel for Active Kids from A to Z
- Escaping the Nightly Grind: When Your Child's Teeth Won't Sleep
- Evaluating Toddlers: When Should You Worry About Your Toddler's Mental Health?
- Febrile Seizures: What Causes Febrile Seizures in Small Children?
- Fifth Disease: The Signs and Symptoms
- Fighting Back: How to Survive Flu Season, Even Without a Shot
- Finger Pricks, Insulin and Occasional Indulgences: Parenting a Diabetic Child
- Fit for the Fun of It: Great Ways to Encourage Children to Exercise
- Fit or Fat? Tips for Raising Healthy, Active Kids
- Fluoride in Our Water? An Issue You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
- Food Allergies and Children: Is It Taking a Toll on Your Family?
- Food Fight: 5 Common Nutritional Mistakes Parents Make
- Fruit Juice: Is Your Child Getting Too Much of a Good Thing?
- Fun, Filling, But Not Fattening: The Skinny on Making Your Kids a Great School Lunch
- Germs on the Playground: Should Parents Be Concerned When Little Ones Swing and Slide?
- Getting Kids to Eat: Tips from a Nutritionist
- Getting to Know Herb: What Herbs Are Safe, What's Not?
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease: How Much Do You Know About This Viral Infection?
- Health Hazards in Hiding: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Raise a Healthy Child
- Healthy Teens: Mission Possible: There's Hope for Healthy Teens
- Helping Children Develop a Healthy Lifestyle: 10 Tips from St. Louis Children's Hospital
- High Energy Drinks: Do Kids Really Need Caffeine?
- Horrific Headaches: How to Cope with
Childhood Migraines - Hospitalization Separation: Coping With Your Child's Hospital Stay
- How to Approach Fast Food Wisely: An Excerpt from Healthy Lunchbox: The Working Mom's Guide to Keeping You and Your Kids Trim (LifeLine Press, 2003)
- In the Box: Packing an Organic Lunch
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome: How to Help Your Child
Through IBS - I Spy Something Red: Could Your Child Be Sensitive to Red Food Dye?
- Is Your Sandbox Safe from Roundworm? Preventing Roundworm Infestation in Small Children
- Jazz up the Tap: Flavored Waters Offer Healthy Hydration
- Juvenile Diabetes: Recognizing the Signs and Getting Help
- Juvenile Diabetes: Tackling the Diagnosis as a Family
- Kawasaki Disease: How Much do You Know About This Infectious Illness?
- Kid-size Kidney Stones: A New Concern for Parents
- Lazy Eye: Treatment and Detection of Amblyopia
- Leaves of Three: Dealing with Poison Ivy
- Let's Get Physical: Helping Overweight Kids Get Active
- Lifestyle Changes for Family Health: 10 Easy Back-to-school Tips
- Lifestyle Changes for Family Health: 10 Easy Back-to-School Tips to Help Children (and Parents!) Eat Smarter This Fall
- Lifestyle Changes for Family Health: 10 Easy Back-to-School Tips to Help Children (and Parents!) Eat Smarter This Fall
- Little Consumers: The Effects of Commercials on Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Lunch Lessons: Top 10 Tips for Healthy School Lunch
- Making Fitness a Family Issue: Setting You and Your Children on the Path to Health
- Making Vaccine Time a Little Easier: Distraction Techniques for Immunization Pain
- Mononucleosis: Can Small Children Contract the Virus?
- More Than Monsters: Could Your Child Have Night Blindness?
- Nature's Cavity Fighter: Feeling Good About Fluoride
- Nature's Pharmacy: Revealing the Secrets of Holistic Health
- Necessary Needles: 8 Steps Parents Can Take to Minimize the Pain
- No More Tears? Recognizing the Signs of Dehydration
- No Needles? The Great Immunization Debate
- Nosebleeds in Toddlers and Preschoolers: Causes, Treatment and Prevention of Nosebleeds in Small Children
- Not Just for Adults: Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Kids
- Nutrition in a Box: What to Pack in Your Child's Lunchbox for Good Health and Learning
- Obesity Insights: 7 (Sometimes Surprising) Secrets for Stopping Childhood Obesity
- One Child Too Many: Preventing Bacterial Meningitis
- Organic, Please: Converting "Conventional" Kids to Organic
- Ouchy, Itchy! Preventing, Recognizing and Treating Insect Bites and Stings
- Paul Neville: Getting Kids Fit in a Fun Way
- Petting Zoos and Your Child's Health: Is It Safe to Take Children to Pet the Animals?
- Pink, but Not Pretty: Debunking the Myths of Pink Eye
- Posture Perfect: Getting Kids to Straighten Up
- Potatoes, Bananas and Duct Tape: Uncovering the Facts on Childhood Warts
- Putting a Stop to Soda Pop: Why Too Much Is Hurting Your Kids
- Rash Decisions: Deciphering Summer's Most Common Skin Ailments
- Redefining Pantry Staples: The Benefits of a Well-stocked Kitchen
- Redefining Pantry Staples: The Benefits of a Well-stocked Kitchen
- Rotavirus: What You Should Know
- Safety First? Does Your Child's School Have a Nurse?
- SARS Wars: Protecting Your Family
- Singing the Lunchbox Blues? How to Create a Healthy Meal for Your Student
- Singing the Lunchbox Blues? Part Two
- Smallpox Vaccinations: What Parents Need to Know
- Smoke Into the Mouths of Babes: The Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Babies and Toddlers
- Sneezes and Wheezes: Childhood Respiratory Illnesses
- Square Meals: Do Kids Need Three Square Meals a Day?
- Stop the Spread of Germs: 5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Family Healthy
- Surviving "Strep": More Than Just a Sore Throat
- Swimmer's Ear: Quick Treatment Is Key
- Swim Safely! Protect Your Children from Waterborne Illnesses
- Tackling Influenza: Healthy Decisions This Flu Season
- Taking the Fear out of Hospitals: The Role of the Child Life Specialist
- The ABCs of UTIs: Identifying and Treating Urinary Tract Infections
- The ABCs of UTIs: Identifying and Treating Urinary Tract Infections
- The Bad News About Couch Potatoes: An Excerpt
- The Buzz on Bugs and Babies: Summer's Small Pests Can Pose Big Dangers
- The Clean Plate Club: Why Your Family Shouldn't Join
- The Cold and Cough Medication Ban: Why Were Infant Cold Syrups Removed from Store Shelves?
- The Coolest Pastime: Swim for Year-round, Lifetime Fitness
- The Dietary Connection: Can Sugars and Food Additives Contribute to Learning and Behavior Disorders?
- The Flu Bug: Protecting Your Kids From Influenza
- The Healthy Lifestyle Wars: 4 Steps to Convincing Your Child That Fitness Is Fun
- The Other White Drink: 10 Ways to Incorporate Soymilk Into Your Family's Diet
- The Season to Sneeze: Fall Allergy Tips
- The Terrible Dangers of Childhood Obesity: An Excerpt from The Highly Healthy Child
- Thin Is Too In: Eating Disorders and How They Affect Our Children
- Tips for the Hospital Trip: A Checklist of Dos and Donts
- TMJ: Not Just for Adults: Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome
- Tonsils, Tossing and Turning: Can a Tonsillectomy Help a Child With Sleep Problems?
- Toxic Mold: One Family's Story
- Toxic Mold: One Family's Story Part Two
- Treating Ticks: A Natural, Integrated Approach to Lyme Disease
- Tummy Troubles: Handling Little One's Bellyaches
- Tune out for Good Health: Limiting Computer and Television Time
- Tuning In: 15 Strategies for Focusing Children's Energy
- Video Games Get Physical: Using Entertainment Technology to Get Fit
- Vitamin Supplements: Are They Good for Your Child?
- Want Your Kids to Choose to Be Active? Start Them Early!
- West Nile Virus: Texas Children's Hospital Encourages Parents to Keep Watch
- What "Just Being a Kid" Means Today: The Sedentary Life of Children
- What's Eating Our Kids: An Emotional Component to Obesity?
- What's in the Air? 10 Ways to Protect Your Child from Air Pollution
- What You Need to Know About Lead Poisoning: Don't Take It Lightly
- When Food Bites Back: Is It a Food Allergy?
- When Is a Headache More Than Just a Headache? Warning Signs From Texas Children's Hospital
- When It Comes to Medicine, Kids Aren't Just Small Adults: How to Administer Children's Medications Safely
- When Mites Move In: Diagnosing and Treating Scabies
- White Coat Anxiety: 9 Ways to Make Doctor's Visits Less Traumatic
- Whooping Cough: Protecting Our Children From Pertussis
- Winning the Toothbrush Wars: A Parent's Guide
- You're a Vegetarian? Raising Herbivores Among Omnivores