Speaker/Entertainer offers parents and care givers helpful advice for helping sick children enjoy the holidays. Many children will spend the holidays in the hospital or doctor's office. Magician BJ Hickman shares magic tricks, curiosities, and diversions to help health care professionals comfort young patients. PediaTRICKS presentations are designed to help calm the fears of children. Doctor is quoted about its success.
It is nearly impossible to find a community where children do not have head lice. Millions of dollars are spent annually for pesticide treatments even though there is reliable scientific evidence that lice are resistant to them. As a result, the head louse remains well-established among the childhood population. September is National Head Lice Prevention Month!
For many expectant parents, nine months is just too long to wait. Anxious for the birth of their child, many parents-to be are using progressive 3D and 4D ultrasound technology to bring images of their unborn baby to life.
The FLAVORx Research Institute is currently working with pediatric obesity specialists and bariatric surgeons to derive a solution to the rise in childhood obesity. Readily available high-calorie and sugar-added food and drinks in combination with less exercise and activity has led to an astronomical jump in cases of overweight and obsese children and adolescents.