child's health

The Stroke Foundation has welcomed and endorsed Australia’s first clinical guidelines for children with stroke, saying the guidelines were a vital step forward in recognising and treating some of the disease’s youngest sufferers. The guidelines, developed by doctors from the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, have been…

Doctors treating children with life-threatening illnesses now have a new tool to help them with the ethical questions surrounding fertility preservation.

Caffeine is the only psychoactive drug (drug which affects the mind or mood) that is legally available to children and adolescents. While consumption in moderation…