Conditions and illnesses

Conditions and illnesses

Q: My son’s best friend is going to have a stem cell transplant in the next few weeks. What exactly are stem cells and why do some people need a transplant?

Conditions and illnesses

Q: My son seems to be suffering from more and more headaches lately. How can you tell the difference between a headache and a migraine, and when should you see a doctor?

Conditions and illnesses

Q: My son keeps getting cold sores. How can I help to prevent them?

Conditions and illnesses

Q: It seems like every year there’s a new strain of flu circulating. How does this happen and is it a cause for concern?

Conditions and illnesses

Q: Is a vaccine safer than getting the real disease?

Conditions and illnesses

Q: I recently discovered that my daughter has been visiting pro-anorexia-type websites, referred to her by a friend at school.

What can I do to ensure she stops visiting them and that she is not taking the content of these sites as fact?
Conditions and illnesses

Q: How does ‘vaping’ e-cigarettes differ from smoking traditional cigarettes?

Conditions and illnesses

Q: Given that a healthy individual can live with just one kidney, why wouldn’t a parent donate a kidney to their child if that child needed a kidney transplant?

A: There are many factors to think about when considering organ donation, both for the person receiving the graft and the person donating a kidney.
Conditions and illnesses

Pneumonia in Children

Pneumonia is a term that means lung infection. It is important for a child with pneumonia to get treatment. But how to know when a cold turns into pneumonia?

Conditions and illnesses

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

As most parents know, children can be emotional or strong-willed. But a child who has frequent temper tantrums and consistently refuses to follow requests may have a deeper problem.

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