Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration announced new rules for sunscreen labels that will take effect in the summer of 2012. The rules …
Author: Erin Digitale
The spark of a cancer revolution
How do you figure out how to battle cancer? Sometimes a single, tiny patient sparks a revolution. That's what happened at Stanford in the early …
"I opened the doors:" A look back at two special babies
Of the thousands of babies cared for at the neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital since its opening in 1991, someone had …
Two children, one mind?
In case you haven't seen it yet, a fascinating New York Times Magazine story about conjoined twins was published online this morning. The 4-year-old twins, …
Expert answers on sun precautions for kids
In a live Facebook chat over the lunch hour, Latanya Benjamin, MD, a pediatric dermatologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, answered questions about sun safety …
Bacteria let mosquitos say "Buzz off!" to malaria
File this under Really Cool Discoveries: New research, published May 13 in Science, shows that a specific group of naturally occurring bacteria, called Enterobacter, can …
The high cost of pollution on kids' health
Toxic chemicals and air pollution cause big, expensive health problems for U.S. children. How expensive? The bill was $76.6 billion in 2008, says a recent …
New ways to prevent drug overdoses in children
The 1970 introduction of child-resistant packages on toxic household products was a huge safety advance - child deaths from accidental poisoning are now rare. But, …
California's maternal mortality on the rise
Women are still dying from complications of pregnancy, and not just in remote locales. A new State of California report (.pdf) presents detailed analysis of …
Sixth graders saying no to chocolate milk?
Long ago, in my idealistic-student days, I thought I would grow up to be a nutrition educator, spreading the good news of vegetables far and …
Hormone could prevent 10,000 preterm births per year
In case you missed it, today's print edition of the New York Times reports on a study of a new hormone treatment that could prevent …
40 years of changes in our food
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit consumer advocacy group that works on issues of nutrition science and food safety, …
New guidelines for kids' participation in organized sports
Just in time for the start of your kids' spring sports, the April issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine contains new …
New research center aims to understand premature birth
The March of Dimes and the Stanford's medical school are today launching a new research center dedicated to understanding and preventing preterm birth. The new …
New hope for people with severe milk allergies
The big excitement at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding was a trip to the emergency room. Someone accidentally ate the wrong tortilla chip. We …
Surviving pediatric brain cancer
What happens after a medical crisis ends? What if the person who was ill is a child - someone who will carry the after-effects of …