Tag: pediatrics

A Thumb’s Up for Thumb-Sucking?

A recent study says there may be a link between childhood thumbsucking and fewer allergies in later life. Should you encourage it? It’s a sight that rattles the nerves of some parents: a child who loves to suck his thumb or bite her nails. Turns out it’s a self-soothing behavior for these children – and […]

FaceTime might help toddlers learn new skills and social interactions

In a world of ever-changing technological innovation, channels of communication are constantly increasing and developing. The role of media in the lives of adolescents and children has been transformed from TV, movies, and books to the vast world of digital media. Ways to communicate through the Internet are continually expanding. Current guidelines by the American […]

Reckless, profit-driven doctors prescribing children as young as 12 sex-change hormones

Doctors at British “gender identity clinics” are prescribing sex-change hormones for children as young as 12 years old, according to recent U.K. media reports. One Welsh GP, Dr. Helen Webberley, admitted that she is treating a “handful” of patients under 16 with cross-sex hormones, one of whom is a 12-year-old living as a boy. The […]