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College Survival Guide

When young adults leave home for college and what may be their first real test of taking care of themselves, it can give both student and parents pause. But paving their independent path without parents watching over their eating and sleeping habits, health care and general well-being can actually be a good experience for college-bound children...[More]

Why Can't They Be This Good at Home?

"Street angel, house devil" and similar colorful phrases reveal parents' frustrations when their child who is "perfect" at preschool or child care transforms into a terror at home.

Is your child manipulating you? Probably not, says Susan Merwin, MD, a Blue Ash child psychiatrist. In such instances, it's more likely the parents, not the child, who need to change behavior. And, she suggests, parents might take a few tips from teachers and non-parent caregivers... [More]

An All-Out Challenge to Sickle Cell Anemia

 A child's blood, of course, pumps to every organ. So when hemoglobin, the oxygen carrier in red blood cells, becomes distorted in sickle cell anemia, the change has implications for every part of a young patient's body.

That's why the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Cincinnati Children's is attacking this inherited disorder on every front... [More]

When to Worry About Fever

When a pediatrician gets a call from an anxious parent after midnight, nine times out of 10, it's about fever. Fever is part of the body's response to fight infection.

The most common cause of sudden-onset fever is a viral infection, an illness that will run three to five days. The child may experience off-and-on lethargy, decreased appetite, headache, and perhaps respiratory or gastro-intestinal symptoms... [More]

Is There a Nutritional Niche for Functional Foods?

With new brands of protein bars and energy drinks muscling in every week, supermarkets may soon need to fortify their shelves to hold them all.

Products that promise health benefits are part of the new science of functional foods, in which foods are evaluated on more than their nutritional components... [More]