The holiday season is a great time for children, but it can also lead to injuries. Read these simple tips to keep kids safe during the holidays.
Discusses pain management for common childhood pain and injuries such as ear infections, colic, and injections.
Learn how to identify signs of poisoning in your child, and how to treat and prevent it.
Learn how to support your child through eating and appetite changes when they are following a gluten-free diet for celiac disease.
Find out how a child’s speech and language skills usually develop by age 3 and what you can do to support speech and language development.
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) deficiency is a type of hypopituitarism hormone deficiency that affects the kidneys. Learn about what happens to the body in ADH deficiency, how it is diagnosed and treated.
Learn about heart-related syndromes. A syndrome is a medical term for a collection of signs and symptoms that generally stem from a single cause.
A biopsy allows doctors to look at the tumour cells to diagnose the type of cancer you may have. Find out about the different types of biopsies, why you may need a biopsy and the potential risks.
A Diskus inhaler delivers medication in powder form. Learn how to properly use a Diskus inhaler.
Read about feeding a baby with a heart condition. It is best to breastfeed, but if you cannot, you can express your breast milk to keep up your milk volume.
Therapeutic clown A. Leboo has a hard time swallowing pills. Child Life Specialists help A. Leboo learn how to swallow pills by practicing with different sizes of candy.Please note that this video was filmed prior to COVID-19.
A healthy weight is different for everyone. Find out how you can maintain the weight that is healthy for you and why this is important.
Teens living with hemophilia can find out what happens during a bleed. Learn about the symptoms of a bleed.
Puffers should always be used with a spacer. Learn how to take medication with a puffer using a spacer with a mouthpiece.
Read about coping with a diagnosis. While the diagnosis may be upsetting, the good news is that a child's pain is no longer a mystery.
A list of helpful glossary terms for Teens Taking Charge Managing Your Hemophilia program.
Genetic counselling is a process that provides information and support to individuals and families at risk of, or with, a genetic condition.
Learn how to create a wind-down routine that you can do in the 30 minutes before bedtime to help your body and mind get ready for sleep.
A pyogenic granuloma is a bump that contains blood vessels and can bleed easily. Find how why the condition occurs and how it is diagnosed and treated.
A pharmacist is part of your health-care team, either at the hospital or in a pharmacy. Learn what a pharmacist is and how they can help you.
Deciding about a blood and marrow transplant (BMT) is a difficult decision to make. Parents can learn some tips that may help.
Read about the reasons you might need a kidney transplant and how a kidney transplant can affect your future.
Read about tips and tricks for finding a primary health-care provider on your own.
Information for parents about bleeding, a possible complication which may occur after a child's blood and marrow transplant (BMT).
Hereditary spherocytosis is a genetic condition. In most cases it is inherited from a parent. Learn how HS is inherited and what happens in a de novo mutation.
