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Its children’s health media arm features KidsHealth.org, which provides doctor-approved information about the health, behavior, and development of children from birth to adulthood, KidsHealth in the Classroom health curriculum for elementary, middle and high school educators, and KidsHealth patient instructions and KidsHealth GetWell Network ...
Nemours was founded in 1936 by the Nemours Foundation. Alfred I. duPont was a key figure in establishing Nemours Children's Health. After a career in the family's gunpowder business, duPont turned his focus to charitable work.
A medical doctor who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children", derived from the two Greek words: παῖς (pais "child") and ἰατρός (iatros "doctor, healer").
A medical doctor who undertakes vocational training in pediatrics must also be accepted for membership by a professional college before they can practice pediatrics. While many general hospitals can treat children adequately, pediatric specialists may be a better choice when it comes to treating rare afflictions that may prove fatal or severely ...
Philip John Landrigan (born June 14, 1942), is an American epidemiologist and pediatrician. [1] [2] He has campaigned against substances in the environment that are harmful to children, such as lead and asbestos.
Voted Best Doctor by Best Doctors, Inc. (2007) [2] The C. Anderson Aldrich Award, American Academy of Pediatrics (2008) Robert F. Kennedy Embracing the Legacy Award for Medical-Legal Partnership (2008) Ashoka Fellow (2010) APA Health Care Delivery Award to the Department of Pediatrics (2014)
This tsunami of low-quality food into the American diet has been a disaster for kids' health. One in three kids is now overweight or obese — a rate that's more than tripled since the 1970s .
Streptococcal pharyngitis, also known as streptococcal sore throat (strep throat), is pharyngitis (an infection of the pharynx, the back of the throat) caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive, group A streptococcus.