Pediatrics

Health & Medicine

How to help babies avoid getting a flat head

Plagiocephaly, the clinical name for asymmetrical flat-headedness in babies, is relatively common but easily preventable. Parents just need to encourage their babies to defy gravity

Health & Medicine

Early puberty linked to socio-economic status

Social and economic disadvantage appears to be an evolutionary trigger for children being hit by early puberty, but it puts them at greater risk of associated health problems in later life

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