Life is hard for the children of a parent suffering from depression. Children take on an enormous amount of responsibility for the ill parent and for other family members. It is therefore important for the health services to be aware of this and have support functions in place for the whole family, ...

Reports are coming in that six major manufacturers have agreed to stop selling hard plastic baby bottles made with the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the United States....

Haven't we really always known this? Maybe we're simply "too smart" for our own good and that of our kids. Several years ago, I coached a co-ed baseball team of 4th and 5th graders in the Texas Rangers' Rookie League. We played about 20 games during June each year. These kids had never played baseba...

The next chapter in our family’s life is that my younger son has begun speech therapy. I had been thinking of having my younger son evaluated for about a year. It was not a pressing issue, not a high priority. This was because a lot of times I didn’t hear the speech issues then sometimes I would...

Smoking during pregnancy reduces blood flow to the developing fetus, which in turn, retards its growth. A research team studied more than 250 pregnant women. Most were non-smokers, but about 84 were smokers or ex-smokers. Newborns of current smokers weighed less, had smaller head sizes, and were sho...

Infants born at very low birth weights are at increased risk of lung ailments in the first 12 months of life, and a new study suggests that modifiable indoor respiratory triggers, namely exposure to cigarette smoke and pests in the home, may be at least partly to blame. In a study of 124 very low bi...

The UK's leading cot death charity, The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), today launched a hard-hitting new ad to encourage young mums to seek safe sleep advice. FSID has teamed up with advertising agency JWT to produce the viral, which focuses on the pain of losing a baby....

The United States is the fattest nation in the world. We're also the most litigious. It's time for these two giants to meet. Two recent studies related to childhood obesity point to new hope for health-related lawsuits against "Big Fat" companies, like McDonalds, KFC and other makers of fast-foo...

U.S. health officials have uncovered trace amounts of the chemical melamine in a sample of infant formula sold in the United States. FDA spokeswoman Judy Leon said. "There's no basis for concern because we're talking about trace levels that are so low ... that there's absolutely no risk." Melamine-t...

By Christopher Gabriel , CGabriel.com A few months ago, my 18-month-old daughter hurt her left elbow.  There was no bruising, no blood . . . absolutely nothing my wife and I could see that was causing her to be in what clearly was excruciating pain.  She walked around with her arm hanging down b...