This can include everything from the doctor’s gender and languages spoken to weekend hours and whether there’s a laboratory on site to make taking blood samples easier. “Once you’ve outlined the most important criteria, you’ll be able to target your search and make an informe...
It is a common myth that it has to be something ‘new’ that is causing your child’s hives, as it is much more common that your child has had something two, three or more times before it finally triggers hives. And although an allergic reaction to a food is usually fairly quick, o...
(Bradbury and Jantti1999, Smeeding1997). However, if an absolute measure of poverty is applied using the 1995 US criteria, this pattern shifts. Although the child poverty rate in the USA declines only slightly, the country's ranking jumps to 12th place, while Russia and Hungry, countries ...
Owing to the unique nature of DS, caregivers of children with DS must take care of children who are cognitively, physically, and behaviourally different from their peers. Historical research has found that families of children with DS face multiple challenges related to intellectual disability, healt...
The study included nine parent-child dyads who met the inclusion criteria. In order to participate in the study, participants had to have albinism, regardless of its form, and be over 18 years old and have no mental or physical comorbidities. PWAs were also required to participate with one ...
Yet, a study on children’s sports in the United States (Sabo & Veliz, 2008) has found that gender, poverty, location, ethnicity, and disability can limit opportunities to engage in sports. Girls were more likely to have never participated in any type of sport (see Figure 5). They also...
spike protein have been shown to have a clinical benefit in treating SARS-CoV-2 infection. Preliminary data suggest that monoclonal antibodies may play a role in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection in household contacts of infected patients and during skilled nursing and assisted living facility ...
It is important to be aware that the purpose of screening instruments is to alert physicians to the possibility of autism; they are not designed to confirm diagnosis. Moreover, not all children with autism do score positively on these instruments and failure to meet cut-off criteria does not ...