A music video of patients and staff on the Seattle Children’s Hospital hematology-oncology floor rocking out to Kelly Clarkson’s song “Stronger” is a big on the Internet.
To mark National Safe Kids Week, Dr. Melissa Hathaway, a pediatrician at The Polyclinic, offers tips for keeping kids safe.
Some clinicians say universal screening is an important tool to help identify children who are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol and to pinpoint others who could benefit from treatment. Others express concerns that screening may do more harm than good.
Group-based prevention strategies may offer a means of reaching more individuals than most treatment approaches.
Foster kids were more likely to be prescribed five or more psychotropic drugs at a time and at doses that exceed the maximum FDA-approved levels.
Many mothers and children qualify for WIC nutrition help. With just a phone call, parents get an appointment in one to two weeks, and will receive WIC checks at their first appointment.
While ADHD can’t be cured, it can be successfully managed, and there is a wealth of information available that you can access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Matthew Zachary, a brain cancer survivor, founded the I’m Too Young For This Foundation to help young adults with cancer and survivors of childhood cancers.
How do young people with cancer cope with the stress and loneliness that can come with an illness that most of us think of as as a disease of the elderly?
Many young cancer survivors are unaware of their risk for chronic complications due to their treatment; the same is true of many of the doctors they see after leaving the care of cancer specialists.
Survival of children with cancer has climbed dramatically, but progress in treating adolescents and young adults has stagnated. Why? One reason: too few enroll in clinical trials.
LocalHealthGuide is on vacation, so this week the we’re will be running an excellent series of articles on cancer in young adolescents and young adults, or “AYAs”, written by the staff of the NCI Cancer Bulletin. The articles cover a range of topics from the social and psychological challenges these young people face to the latest research.
LocalHealthGuide is a health news and information web service for Seattle and the Puget Sound Region. We are independent and unaffiliated with any hospital, medical association or insurer. If you have questions or if your group has an upcoming event that you would like us to cover, please let us know by going to our "Contact Us" page and dropping us a note. -- Michael McCarthy, Editor
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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