Nursing considerations Nurses must educate patients and parents to monitor for any signs and symptoms of recurring infection, specifically GAS infection, in the patient or in any of the patient's...
What will follow will be a combination of my thoughts on the situation up-to-date; answers to many of the questions I have received over the years and some suggestions for future work. To foreshadow...
Lisa Rinna is opening up about her daughter’s struggles with mental health. On Monday, just three days after Delilah Belle Hamlin revealed she had been to rehab two times last year, Rinna shared...
BOSTON -- Tiffany Uttam was facing every parent’s nightmare. Her nine-year-old son became abruptly ill, and no one could seem to help. He was suddenly anxious and paranoid, hallucinating and...
Parents push for coverage, awareness of rare syndrome. Local families grappling with a rare and elusive syndrome will make the case for greater acknowledgement and support at the State House...
After infections, some children are misdiagnosed with mental health conditions. A reality of trauma and many other mental health problems is the complexity of causes. This means that sustainable...
Results of the population-based study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, found that infections that required hospitalization or treatment with anti-infective medications, such as antibiotics, antifungals...
Two years ago, Craig and Erica Mills packed up the family minivan and headed north from Toronto to a campground in Tobermory, Ont. Annual camping trips were loved by their three young sons—two days...
In 2017, then-Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law what was known as Charlie’s Law that required insurance companies to cover treatment costs for certain auto immune diseases in children. One...
A teenage boy is once again happy and healthy after an 18-month long battle to discover what was wrong with him. A report published in the Journal of Central Nervous System Disease on Monday detailed...
IT SEEMED so unremarkable at first, something only a mother would notice. Instead of running to the sink like most middle schoolers and washing his hands as fast as he could, 13-year-old Connor...
In rare cases, a strep infection can cause kids to experience extreme OCD behaviours, a condition called PANDAS. Many doctors don't know it exists. Two years ago, Craig and Erica Mills packed up...