¡Llego el verano! Para muchos niños, el verano es una temporada muy emocionante llena de actividades divertidas.
Para muchos padres, nuestros horarios de trabajo solo nos permiten estar con nuestros hijos por las tardes. Houston es especialmente caluroso y húmedo durante el verano, y es por eso que familias a veces prefieren las actividades nocturnas.
Para los niños puede ser difícil mantener un horario de dormir o una rutina consistente durante el verano. Durante el año escolar, el horario de clases ayuda a que nuestros niños mantengan su rutina y se duerman y despierten a la misma hora cada día. Los niños disfrutan de la...
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Babysitting is a huge and exciting responsibility. As a pediatrician, I often get asked for advice when a teen is getting ready for his or her first babysitting job. Here is a list of my “babysitting do’s and don’ts.”
Babysitting do’s
- Your first priority is keeping the children in your care safe. It’s important to know the home address and home phone number. Make sure you have a list of emergency numbers as well, including:
- Parent's name, phone number
- Back up adult in the event parents are...
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the most diverse countries in the world - geographically, linguistically and culturally. A burden the people of PNG continually face is that of infectious diseases, with tuberculosis, malaria and others causing 62% of deaths nationwide.
As part of our dedication to sharing our expertise and best practices around the world, and to help address the national-level pediatric, maternal and public health capacity in PNG, our team sought to create a program that would improve one of the most valuable resources in...
PHOTO: Patient Danielle Henry with her mentor Dr. Vivien Sheehan. Under Dr. Sheehan’s mentorship, Danielle is working to analyze differences between how the U.S. and Jamaica – which has the highest SCD ratios in the world – treat SCD.
I think, as people with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), it’s really important to not only think about what we can’t do, but what we can do. Whenever I get sick and can’t do certain things, it gets really easy to think about all of the pain I’m in and my limitations. But, the example of others with SCD has taught me that I need to not only be a survivor, but an achiever....
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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, diaper choice has been complicated in recent years by the debate of the environmental effects of diapers. While much of the discussion has centered on the effects disposable diapers have on landfill space, a number of scientific studies found that both cloth and disposable diapers have environmental effects. These impacts include raw material and energy usage, air and water pollution, and waste disposal. Disposable diapers add 1-2% to municipal solid waste, while cloth diapers use...