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Helping Your Children Grow into Healthy Teens
Healthy relationships develop over years and their foundation is effective communication. Here, Richard Chung, MD, an expert in adolescent medicine at Duke, explains how you can open the lines of communication, and foster that strong relationship with your child now and as they become teenagers.
Apr. 25, 2013 -
Kids Stash the Darndest Things
When your child performs disappearing tricks involving the nose, ears and other places, look to the wisdom of Duke Urgent Care providers, who have seen it all.
Jan. 31, 2013 -
Could that Juice Box Increase Your Child’s Risk for Diabetes?
The next time you hand your child a juice box, consider this: are you increasing their risk for diabetes?
Jan. 25, 2013 -
The Flu Shot Trifecta: Protects Mom, Fetus and Infant
Maternal immunizations like the flu shot protect the mother but have an even greater potential impact on the fetus and baby.
Jan. 14, 2013 -
What Are Hemangiomas?
There are a lot of questions surroudning strawberry marks or hemangiomas in infants and children – will they stay? – will they grow? – will they go away?
Jane Bellet, MD, FAAD, FAAP, an expert in pediatric dermatology, offers some information and advice designed to answer questions asked by parents of children with hemangiomas.
Sept. 11, 2012 -
Teen Health Q&A: Turn Off the TV and Talk to Each Other
In this Q&A session, Richard Chung, MD, director of Duke’s adolescent medicine program, provides advice on some important teen health issues.
Sept. 28, 2011 -
To Help Stop the Spread of Flu, Early Prevention Is Best
When it comes to getting the flu vaccine, the sooner you get it, the sooner you start to protect yourself and your loved ones from the flu.
Sept. 23, 2011 -
Rebuilding Smiles: Updates in Cleft Lip and Palate Repair
Jeffrey R. Marcus, MD, director of the Duke Cleft and Craniofacial Program, says that in treatment of cleft lip and palate, less really is more.
June 22, 2011 -
On the Groom's Side: Adult Patient at Duke Children's Refuses to Let Rare Disease Crash Wedding
In 1979, the family of two-year-old Burns Blackwell learned he had a rare disease. Burns’s family was immediately referred to see Rebecca Buckley, MD -- the beginning of a long and meaningful relationship.
June 9, 2011 -
Pediatric Allergies: Q&A with Wesley Burks, MD
Wesley Burks, MD, discusses food allergies in children and what parents should do if they suspect their child has an allergy.
June 7, 2011
