Wellness
LiveSmart: Strategies for Healthy Parent/Child/Physician Partnerships
Whether you are bringing your child to their pediatrician for a routine visit, to a hospital for surgery, or to an ER, you are their health care advocate. […]
children’s health
SPHP in the News
Time Warner Cable News: Parents Can Pass Stress on to Children
Dr. Janice Pride-Boone, a pediatrician with St. Mary’s Clifton Park Pediatric Center, spoke to Time Warner Cable News about whether parents can pass their stress on to their children. Here is one of her quotes from the report: “It’s very common for our emotions to spill over and affect that child for years. A mom who is anxious and depressed, there’s a huge body of knowledge that documents that anxiety and depression can be passed on until the child turns 18.” Click here to see the full story.
Wellness
LiveSmart: Bullying
The issue of abuse and bullying among school-aged kids continues to make the news, with the National Center Against Bullying reporting last month that one in three students will be bullied in school, either in person or over social media channels. […]
Wellness
LiveSmart: Immunizations Critical for Individual, Public Health
A measles outbreak that emerged in late December on the West Coast continues to remain in the news. Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that spreads easily through the air or on infected surfaces. […]