Babies cannot talk to parents, but they can communicate with them through smiles (Brazelton, 2006). Smiling is generally regarded as a show of happiness. This ability of a baby boy or girl to look the mother or-father in the face and smile is one heck of an achievement in the baby world.In my opinion, the […]

She was only seven days old. ‘For three days, my baby has not passed stool,’ the mother said, anxiously. The infant squirmed in discomfort and strained to the point of turning red. She had been on baby formula since birth. While in the hospital she had passed stool regularly every day, mostly after each feed, […]

She was only seven days old. ‘For three days, my baby has not passed stools,’ the mother said, anxiously. The infant squirmed in discomfort and strained to the point of turning red. She had been on baby formula since birth. While in the hospital she had passed stool regularly every day, mostly after each feed, […]

Within one week of private medical practice I encountered three children with anemia. One was a seventeen-year-old girl who came to my office for a sports clearance medical examination. She enjoyed playing tennis a lot. When her blood test result came back, her hemoglobin level was 7.8. On speaking to mother, the teen did not […]

General A cough is likely due to asthma if it refuses to go away over days, weeks or months, is worse at night or early in the morning, or if it comes and goes without notice. A cough is even more likely due to asthma if the child also suffers from a chronic rough skin […]

Just as with any other medical visit, good clinicians ask plenty of questions when confronted with a child who has a headache. Older kids, able to express themselves, can give some account of the degree of discomfort, the severity of a headache, how long it lasts, and how frequently they have it. Parents or other […]

I am special and full of admiration I wonder what it would be like to admire all of life creations I hear my song on the pages of every memoir I see similarity in all life I want to be special, but can’t I am special and full of admiration I pretend I know myself […]

Many of the men came regularly and Matt knew them by name – at least by their nicknames. Kris laid supine, flexing and extending one knee after the other. Ejikeme throttled up and down a short distance. A man whom Matt had seen many times without ever hearing anyone scream his name during a game […]

Men nostalgic for the game they once played come to relive their boyhood at pickup soccer. To score that goal they missed playing as children in the backyards of their homes and on street corners with friends. To reverse the goal they conceded as goalie when they let their team down. Other grown-ups come to […]

I would like everyone to read this article thoroughly and appreciate why I am so upset. Following my nephew’s diagnosis of leukemia at UNTH, in Enugu, I requested that the hematology department send a referral note by e-mail to Saint Jude’s, a children’s cancer research hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. This institution is a center […]