Category: Pediatrics
Childhood Cancer Follow-up
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Anchor lead: For women who’ve survived childhood cancers, how can their risk of breast cancer be reduced? Elizabeth Tracey reports Girls who receive cancer treatment that may involve radiation to the chest area are at increased risk for subsequent breast …
Tangible Actions and COVID-19
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Anchor lead: You can help your children feel they’re helping with the pandemic, Elizabeth Tracey reports Staying at home is helping everyone in the pandemic by reducing the chances for more people to become infected. Rachel Thornton, a pediatrician at Johns …
Talking With Kids About COVID
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Anchor lead: What’s the best way to talk with your children about the pandemic? Elizabeth Tracey reports COVID-19 is a scary disease, perhaps even more so for children, who have witnessed the world transform in short order. Helping parents to …
Special Needs Kids and COVID
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Anchor lead: Some groups of children may experience more severe COVID-19 disease than others, Elizabeth Tracey reports COVID-19 infection seems to hit most children much less severely than many adults, but there are groups of kids who may be especially …
Symptoms of COVID-19 in Kids
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Anchor lead: What should parents do if they suspect their children may have COVID-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Even though children may most often have milder symptoms of COVID-19 infection, as several studies have shown, parents should be on the lookout …
Kids and COVID
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Anchor lead: Most children don’t seem to develop severe COVID-19 illness, Elizabeth Tracey reports Children appear to develop mild or moderate COVID-19 illness, studies show, yet Rachel Thornton, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins, says that knowledge may not alleviate the …