Children's Health Articles

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  Liver Disease
  Foodborne Illness
   

  Encephalopathy

  Encephalopathy is a nonspecific term describing a syndrome affecting the brain. Generally, it refers to involvement of large parts of the brain (or the whole organ), instead of identifiable changes ... > more
• Dogs
  Gene Therapy
  Veterinary Medicine
  Staying Healthy
  Personalized Medicine
  Wounds and Healing
   

  Therapy dog

  Therapy Dog refers to a dog trained to provide affection and comfort to people in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, mental institutions, schools, and stressful situations such as disaster ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Developmental Biology
  Intelligence
  Nervous System
  Sports Medicine
  Perception
   

  Neuroscience

  Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central ... > more
• Eating Disorder Research
  Eating Disorders
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Obesity
  Mental Health Research
  Healthy Aging
   

  Anorexia nervosa

  Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by voluntary starvation and exercise stress. Anorexia nervosa is a complex disease, involving psychological, sociological and physiological ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Urology
  Women's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Bladder Cancer
   

  Urinary incontinence

  Urinary incontinence is the involuntary excretion of urine from one's body. Stress incontinence is essentially due to pelvic floor muscle weakness. It is loss of small amounts of urine with coughing, ... > more
• Sports Medicine
  Fibromyalgia
  Pain Control
  Bone and Spine
  Osteoporosis
  Leukemia
   
  

  Bruise

  A bruise or contusion or ecchymosis is a kind of injury, usually caused by blunt impact, in which the capillaries are damaged, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Psychiatry
  Eating Disorders
  Mental Health Research
   

  Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

  Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), or anankastic personality disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a general psychological inflexibility, rigid conformity to ... > more
• Mumps, Measles, Rubella
  Vaccines
  Infectious Diseases
  Viruses
  Virology
  Diseases and Conditions
   
  

  MMR vaccine

  The MMR vaccine is a mixture of live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella. It is generally administered to children around the age of one ... > more
• Nutrition
  Today's Healthcare
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
   
  

  Soft drink

  A soft drink is a drink that does not contain alcohol, as opposed to hard drinks, that do. In general, the term is used only for cold beverages. "Regular" soft drinks largely contain sugar or corn ... > more
• Depression
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Anxiety
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Clinical depression

  Clinical depression is a state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living. The diagnosis may ... > more

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