10-month-old Eli gets a glob of topical lidocaine in anticipation of setting an intravenous line for hydrating fluids. Eli was mostly smiles at Health First’s Pediatric Emergency Department at Holmes ...

Pain--a simple four-lettered word that complicates people's lives every day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Chronic pain affected about 20 percent of the U.S. adults in ...

Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor's office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks ...

Many people are frightened of needles because they have learned to associate discomfort with immunizations or blood draws. In fact, fear of needles affects the majority of children under 11, 20 to 50 ...

Acupuncture is a safe and increasingly popular medical intervention for providing lasting solutions to posture problems. Dr Raman Kapur, acupuncture specialist at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, ...

Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor's office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks ...

A fear of needles in a medical setting (often called trypanophobia when it’s more severe) is common and can make TRT ...

Kimberlee McGregor of Cocoa brought her son Eli, 10 months, into the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center on a recent morning because he was congested ...