Archive for the ‘Children and Youth’ Category
As they set up households of their own, the grown children of hoarders find that they have a complex relationship with stuff.
Reporter’s File: A Generation of Autism, Coming of Age
by New York Times Posted: Thursday, 5/12/2011
A half million children with autism will enter adulthood in the next decade. How will they be cared for?
18 and Under: A Tonsil Remedy Is Fitted for a New Century
by By Perri Klass, M.D. Posted: Monday, 4/25/2011
New guidelines suggest tonsillectomy for recurrent sore throats only if frequent or severe, but the operation may be considered for children with trouble breathing while they sleep.
Scientists now say the disorder depicted in “The King’s Speech” is a problem with the mechanics of speech production, not a result of language or psychological problems.
Dr. Chevalier Jackson, a laryngologist who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, preserved more than 2,000 objects that people had swallowed or inhaled.
Two studies suggest that the road to hypertension and heart disease starts in childhood and that prevention should start there, too.
