Topic: Texas

Dramatic rise in skull flattening in Texas babies

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of infants born with "flat-head" syndrome has risen dramatically in Texas - but is probably not cause for concern, according to a new study.Between 1999 and 2007, the number of cases of plagiocephaly -- misshapen ...
With the birth of each child, as parents, we want their life to be perfect and free of hardship, sickness and pain. Later, when my son was five years old and preparing to go into elementary school, the doctor said it was ...
Sue Egerter, co-director of the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Social Disparities in Health, and another of the report's authors, noted that in the United States a full third of children in the poorest households are in less than very ...

Leaps and bounds

Children's hospitals are growing up-fast. The hefty reliance on Medicaid and other public funding always adds an element of uncertainty, but children's hospitals overall have "a very good operating cash flow," Desai says. "Along with picking up the additional Medicaid patients-and everyone ...