Family Health Articles

What is clubfoot, and what are the treatment options?

During a normal fertilization, one sperm enters one egg, resulting in a viable embryo. Have you ever wondered what happens if somehow, two sperms penetrate one egg?

Rather than appreciating that research into recognizing autism has led to the increase, more and more people are looking for the cause. This has led to a number of theories, some of which could be relevant, and those that are just a little ridiculous.

ADHD affects more than two million American children. It's incurable and can continue into adulthood. A range of drug and talking therapies exist to help people with ADHD behave normally. Maybe that's the problem?

No two autistic children are truly alike. This is because autism is a generalized term used for those children that have an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). There are a multitude of effects that can be experienced by a child on the spectrum, and the seve

Growing new eggs from stem cells may sound like sci-fi, but the future is coming a lot sooner than you may think.

Congenital torticollis is a condition in which the sternocleidomastoid is tight on one side, leading a baby to have their head twisted to one side all the time. With the right exercises, the condition usually resolves quickly.

A new drug called flibanserin promises to do for women what Viagra did for men, although it acts in an entirely different way. Here is what every couple needs to know about flibanserin for female hypoactive sexual desire.

A new Ohio bill may, as Sarah Palin put it, prevent women from "snuffing out the life of their baby just because the child has an extra chromosome". Isn't this a rather simplistic way of viewing a complex topic?

Breastfeeding has benefits, but they are so minimal that it hardly matters how you feed your baby, recent articles seem to be suggesting. Is that true?