How will child survivors cope?
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Psychologists explain how the children involved in the Russian siege will need help to come to terms with the traumatic events they have witnessed.
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NEW YORK  - Family breakups take a toll on adolescents, who have high rates of psychological and social problems, including substance abuse, behavioral disorders, anxiety and depression, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics
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Preschoolers who witnessed the 2001 terrorist attacks were at high risk of developing lingering problems if they had had a previous frightening experience, new research suggests.
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Kazakhstan's nuclear orphans are a distressing sight: heads that don't match their undersized bodies, and legs and arms twisted in awful contortions. It's a horrifying reminder of the nation's nuclear past -- that nearly two decades after nuclear testing ended, children are still paying the price.
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MONDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- Having had cancer as children increased the risk among surviving adult women for breast cancer, particularly those who were treated with chest radiation, a new study says.
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NEW YORK - Last year, children's voices echoed across ground zero. This year, it is the bereaved parents and grandparents of World Trade Center victims who will read aloud the names of those lost on Sept...
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The children of the victims of Sept. 11 deal with the burden of mourning a private loss that is historic in stature.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Last month's devastating tsunamis in Asia are saturating the television airwaves with images that can disturb children.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases seeping from human remains, and the vulnerability to bugs and other predators that comes from having no shelter.
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NEW YORK  - Certain treatments may affect the scholastic achievement of childhood leukemia survivors, Finnish researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. However, many of these treated children do not appear to be disadvantaged.
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The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF said it was counselling more than 100,000 children who were traumatised by the death of relatives in the tsunami-hit southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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The number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.
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Once again, Lebanon's children are seeing what they shouldn't &#151; visions of death and destruction that may scar them for life. And those are the survivors.
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High levels of stress may physically scar a child's brain, research suggests.
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What can you do to lend a hand in the wake of tragedy?
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Millions of people may have survived the deadliest tsunami in living memory, but many are so deeply traumatized it will take years for them to heal, if ever, medical experts said Monday.
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NEW YORK  - The stress of having a child go through a life-threatening event may have long-term health consequences for parents, a new study suggests.