Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is the top children’s hospital in the nation, according to the recognized leader in such rankings, U.S. News and World Report. The Best Children’s Hospitals rankings for 2023-2024 was released by the hospital Wednesday morning. “We are incredibly proud and honored to be recognized as […]
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Shortage of dentists puts Florida kids’ oral health most at risk
Roy Miller & Dr. Frank Catalanotto Sadly, there was little to smile about in Florida in February, which was designated National Children’s Dental Health Month. The state of children’s oral health in Florida is abysmal, indeed some would say in crisis. The latest data clearly demonstrates that the oral health […]
Post-COVID, many parents are giving kids fever-reducing medicine when it’s not necessary: study
Parents might want to think twice before reaching for aspirin or ibuprofen to bring down a child’s fever. One in three parents give their kids fever-reducing medicine when it’s not really needed, a new study from Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan found. In response to a poll, 33% […]
How Parents Feel About Their Kids in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Katelyn Evans, 16, has never met Randy Kerr—and there’s no reason she should have. It was 66 years ago that Kerr, then 6, became briefly famous, receiving the first injection of Jonas Salk’s experimental polio vaccine during the massive field trial of hundreds of thousands of children in the spring […]