Children's Health

Latest News
• It's Best to Leave Loose Tooth Alone (03/29/2001, Reuters)
• Childhood Rickets Making a Comeback (03/29/2001, Associated Press)
• Therapy on Horizon for Rare Brain Tumor in Young (03/28/2001, Reuters)
• More News on Children's Health

General/Overviews

• Child Health Guide: Put Prevention into Practice (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• You and Your Pediatrician (American Academy of Pediatrics)

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• Elimination Problems in Infants and Children: Self-Care Flowcharts (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Feeding Problems in Infants and Children: Self-Care Flowcharts (American Academy of Family Physicians)

Nutrition

• Nutrition & Fitness (Nemours Foundation)

Prevention/Screening

• Learning Partners--Let's be Healthy! (Dept. of Education, National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities)

Research

• C-Sections Before Labor and Rupture of Membranes Reduce the Risk of Maternal-Infant HIV Transmission by Half (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Childhood Infections (Nemours Foundation)
• Children and Long-Term Illnesses (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Children's Health - Children's Environmental Health Initiative (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
• Handwashing (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
• My Trip to the Hospital Coloring Book (American Society of Anesthesiologists) - links to PDF file

Treatment

• How to Give Medicine to Kids (Food and Drug Administration)
• Your Child and Medication (National Institute of Mental Health)

Lists of Print Publications

• National Maternal and Child Clearinghouse Publications (National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health)

Organizations

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• CYFERNet Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network (Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network)
• Division of Birth Defects, Child Development and Disabilities and Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Emergency Medical Services for Children (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
• National Fathers Network
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Nemours Foundation

Statistics

• America's Children 2000 (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey, 1999 Information and Results (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Youth Risk Behavior Trends (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)

Español/Spanish

• Guía de Salud Infantil: Recomendaciones para Practicar la Prevención (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Niño con una Enfermedad Cronica (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Niño que se Orina en la Cama (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)