2022
October
24,
2022
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13:51 PM
America/Chicago
By Jean YaegerSchool nurse Lori Hamman provides first aid and comfort to the students at Wedgwood 6th Grade Center who arrive at her office with assorted injuries and illnesses on any given day.She treats nosebleeds, headaches and vomiting. She helps...
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April
28,
2022
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11:39 AM
America/Chicago
Fort Worth, Texas – Cook Children’s Health Care System is teaming up with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) this weekend to prevent medication overdoses. The groups are hosting a Med Take Back event on Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to...
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2021
April
20,
2021
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11:04 AM
America/Chicago
Three in a series. Statistics, no matter how alarming, sometimes blur into faceless numbers when parents hear them on TV or read them in a news story.That’s until it’s your child in the emergency room, hooked to an IV while receiving treatment for in...
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2019
June
25,
2019
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09:01 AM
America/Chicago
When your child has a headache, you probably reach for the medicine cabinet, right?
Well, you might be surprised to hear that over-the-counter medications like Advil and Tylenol might actually be what’s triggering the headache in the first place. ...
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2016
September
14,
2016
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16:40 PM
America/Chicago
A new study published in Pediatrics found that more than 80 percent of parents aren't giving their children the correct dosage when their child is sick.
Parents using dosing cups had four times the odds of making a dosing error, compared to when ...
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June
08,
2016
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11:46 AM
America/Chicago
When you drop your 8-month old off at day care you expect to pick up your child rested, fed and ready for some playtime before you put them to bed.
You don’t expect tragedy and you certainly don’t expect that tragedy to occur as a result of neglig...
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2015
December
17,
2015
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13:28 PM
America/Chicago
If you’ve ever had a migraine, you know how awful they can be. Nausea, dizziness plus sensitivity to light and sound… and that’s just the cherry on top of extreme head pain.
It can be a hard thing for adults to deal with. Unfortunately, many child...
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February
17,
2015
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10:36 AM
America/Chicago
Doctors complain about patient demands. Patients sometimes complain that doctors don’t give them what they want.
A recent study done in the adult oncology world and published in JAMA, found that doctors had a perception that patients were demandin...
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2014
November
04,
2014
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13:29 PM
America/Chicago
“Did you give him his medicine this morning or was I supposed to?”
“Hey bud, how did you get that BAND-AID®?”
“I just climbed up on this and got it (from the medicine cabinet).”
Those are 2 conversations that happen frequently and just yeste...
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May
07,
2014
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10:36 AM
America/Chicago
Anything in blood stream could be transmitted to breast milk: food, drug (over the counter medicine, prescription, oral and other) alternative/herbal medicines. Because of this, when you are breastfeeding, it is important to notify your pediatrician ...
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