Hurricane Dorian was an extremely highly effective and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated the northwestern Bahamas and caused vital injury to the Southeastern United States and Atlantic Canada in September 2019. By September 1, NOAA had issued an announcement saying that the “current forecast path of Dorian does not embody […]

The extent of the non-medical costs incurred for a child needing hospital care vary significantly, according to research carried out by Children in Hospital Ireland – In Childhood Illness, Financial Stress: The hidden costs of hospital care for children – but the main ones include: 1) Travel Some 72 per […]

Our Vision That any parent, wherever they are, has information on their child’s medicines that they need and can trust. Medicines information leaflets cover many of the medicines that are prescribed or recommended to children by health professionals. They answer your questions about how and when to give the medicine, […]

OBJECTIVES: To determine relationships between physical fitness and academic achievement in diverse, urban public school children. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used public school data from 2004 to 2005. Academic achievement was assessed as a passing score on Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) achievement tests in Mathematics (fourth, sixth, and eighth […]