Physical Activity: A Key Ingredient to Keeping Kids at a Healthy Weight
About one in five (21 percent) Delaware children, ages 2-17, were obese in 2014, according to the most recent…
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Are Kids too Young to Wear Contact Lenses?
It’s actually not a matter of age when a child can wear contact lenses. What families need to consider…
Caffeine-Related Death Offers Cautionary Tale
Recently, a 16-year-old high school student collapsed at school and was pronounced dead an hour later. Although no drugs…
Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes
This post originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review on June 16, 2017. Despite spending twice what other developed…
Mental Health and Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Social media is a widespread way for teens and tweens to communicate. A recent survey on teen media use…
Our Tourette Syndrome Journey: It’s So Much More Than Just Tics
In honor of National Tourette Awareness Month, a mom and Nemours Associate shares her family’s experience with Tourette syndrome…
