Asthma in childhood
Asthma in childhood is common and it can be serious. About 1 in 4 young children and 1 in 7 teenagers in South Australia are affected by asthma. You need to work out a plan for managing your child's asthma with your doctor. If a child is short of ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Childhood leukaemia
Acute leukaemia develops when white blood cells grow out of control and continue to divide but do not mature. Because they are immature they do not carry out the normal work of white cells, increasing the risk of infection [... more]
NineMSN Health |
What is measles?
Measles can be a serious childhood infection. Although it is now rare in Australia due to immunisation, it is still common, and a common cause of death in many developing countries. Measles is highly contagious. An unimmunised child is very ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Physical Education
The effects of having epilepsy differ for different people. If a young person has had epilepsy since early childhood, she may have been over-protected by her parents and have lost confidence in her ability to manage on her own. She may also have ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Diabetes - managing diabetes in childhood
Managing diabetes is more than just keeping blood glucose levels right. The aim is to make sure that a child or young person can do the things that others of their age can do, even though some aspects of life need to be more carefully ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
What are common childhood injuries?
Young children need to have a safe environment. They are too young to take care of their own safety. They cannot understand danger. Telling them and teaching them about danger is important, but it does not keep them safe. Keeping young children ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson was born in China, where she spent part of her childhood. After her education in China and the American South, she spent four years in Japan, the setting for her first three novels. Ms. Paterson has received numerous awards for ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Lisa Samson
Fifteen years after the mysterious disappearance of Ted, her childhood sweetheart, gutsy and daring Lillie Bauer-bungee-jumper, book addict, and delightfully offbeat coordinator of "extreme" high-concept weddings-is ready to find love again. [... more]
Random House |
Kenneth Bock
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these ... [... more]
Random House |
Ian McEwan
Born in 1948, the son of a Scots sergeant-major, Ian McEwan's childhood was a typical army one of the time - moving from Aldershot to Singapore and then again to Tripoli so at the age of eleven he was sent away to Woolverstone Hall, a state-run ... [... more]
Random House |
John Ruskin
As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin's Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last ... [... more]
Random House |
Kinta Beevor
Kinta Beevor was born in 1911 in Northbourne, England, and died in 1995. The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the wars. When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey ... [... more]
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