Elizabeth Simpson at the Virginian-Pilot has written a poignant follow-up story about Abraham Cherrix, the teenager with cancer who fought to pursue his own path of treatment last year.
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The idea of a hospital as a health-promoting institution strikes us in the U.S. as strange. But it doesn't need to be that way, according to a terrific editorial published in Health and Hospitals Network OnLine.
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Health News Review, a wonderful resource developed by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, tackles a problematic trend in health news reporting: PR and marketing campaigns disguised as medical news.
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I read a book to my kids tonight that caused me to think about the innate spirituality of children.
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A reporter asked me this week: "What is the most common question you get from parents?" Easy answer, regardless of age: "How do I get my child to sleep through the night?"
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