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Parents are often cautioned about the choking hazards of certain foods like grapes and boiled sweets for their young children. However, a paediatrician has now highlighted another food-related health ...

Every family has some age-old practices that they follow to ensure the overall well-being of newborns in their households. If you are born in a desi home, you would have seen your elders practise ...

Debra Hendrickson used to avoid bringing up climate change at work. A paediatrician in Reno, in the US state of Nevada, she treated kids for everything from asthma to depression without pulling their ...

Philip Britton receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Department of Health and NSW Ministry of Health. Since the rise of the more infectious Delta ...

Victor Grech is a consultant paediatrician by day and an artist by night and in his free time. At the age of 43, he has taken the plunge and decided to mount his ...

What exactly is Darwinian medicine? It means we look at humans as being well-adapted, so we don’t just jump to the conclusion that signs and symptoms of illness need to be targeted. We don’t always ...

Parents say they are becoming increasingly desperate as they try to find paediatricians and specialists with the capacity to help children with ADHD and autism. Parents of children with ADHD and ...

In an Instagram post from April 2023, Dr Sanchi Rastogi, a paediatrician specialising in child development, neurology and nutrition, and a mom herself, shared 10 things she would never do to her baby ...