Cases: Saving a Child, Scaring a Parent: A Fainting Reflex
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Parenting classes donât cover what to do when your child goes limp.
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Scott and Jill Stimell faced an agonizing choice: they could watch their child die, or pursue a drastic and painful treatment.
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Breathing through a mask that covers her small face, the little girl slips  into a state of unconsciousness. Her mother and father release their hold on  her tiny hands, then reach out for one another's. They watch as the  anesthesiologist wheels their daughter out of the induction room, then down the  hall to surgery. They worry about their child's safety and comfort.
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The father of a 6-year-old boy with sensory processing disorder is trying to reprogram his son's brain. By Mark Woodman. Also: Read the latest installment of Hacking My Child's Brain on Bodyhack.
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Long before Dena Schlosser took a blade to her baby's arms, her parents had begun to worry. In the years after she moved to Texas with her husband and children, their gentle, dependent daughter had become increasingly isolated. And, according to her stepfather, she was dangerously consumed by a self-described prophet and his church.
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Daniel Kerner's parents knew the experimental brain surgery was risky, but without it the 6-year-old surely would die. Last month in Portland, Ore., doctors for the first time transplanted stem cells from aborted fetuses into his head in a desperate bid to reverse, or at least slow, a rare genetic disorder called Batten disease. The so-far incurable condition normally results in blindness and paralysis before death.
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Parents regret not discussing death with their children who are terminally ill, a survey shows. Many who could not bring themselves to raise the issue later wished they had, Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute found.
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During vaccine "scares," when concerns arise that certain vaccines may cause health problems, parents are quick to stop vaccinating their children, and slow to begin re-vaccinating them once these fears begin to fade, according to a new mathematical analysis released Monday.
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A mother claims the death of her husband at the hands of their son could have been avoided with the right care.
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If you look into the eyes of someone who is frightened, your brain will pick up on the fear in a split second, well before you can consciously put a name to the emotion, scientists say.
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Watching a child struggle to breathe during an asthma attack is frightening for any parent. So it is only natural that most moms and dads will try just about anythingâincluding spending a lot of moneyâto keep an attack at bay.
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(HealthDay News) -- Knowing when your child is old enough to be left alone can be a daunting decision.
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Mothers cradle children in their arms. Fathers smile softly at the helpless bodies they hold. Other parents are bent over from the weight of their teenage kids whose legs fall limp, almost touching the ground. In the absence of basic medical equipment, these parents do this every day.
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When it comes to affairs of the heart, the law is a rather blunt instrument. Despite suggestions that the parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt - fighting a legal battle to insist that doctors resuscitate their
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All families are dysfunctional. But when your first foster parent tries to kill you, your second foster parent is an overzealous snake researcher, and your third foster parent is a hypochondriac, dysfunction suddenly takes on a whole new meaning.
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MONDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Distributing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) kits to schoolchildren is an effective way of getting parents -- who are the most likely to need the lifesaving skill -- to become trained in CPR, a Danish study suggests.
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."