Study Highlights: • More than 40 percent of reports to the National Poison Data System for “energy drink exposure” in a three-year span involved children younger than 6. • The effects of energy drinks in the reported cases included abnormal heart rhythms and seizures. • Researchers call for better labeling of energy drinks’ high caffeine […]

Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Michigan and the Detroit Medical Center have received national media attention for a unique treatment involving a patient with life-threatening hemorrhage. Nancy Diaz of Detroit has been treated at Children’s Hospital of Michigan for Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia, a rare disorder of blood platelets which can result in easy bruising and life-threatening […]

Jason Carter Jr. is quite the athlete playing basketball and football for Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Detroit. So when he did not go to one of his football practices because of a severe headache, his dad Jason Carter Sr. was concerned something was up. A couple of physicals in previous years showed […]

Many people might find it surprising that a large percentage of individuals have slight differences in the length of their arms and legs. In fact, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, one study reported that 32 percent of 600 military recruits had a 1/5 inch to a 3/5 inch difference between the lengths […]

As parents chances are your child has experienced a bump on the head. But when do you know if your child needs just a little comforting or if the bump or injury requires immediate medical attention? The good news is most bumps on the head are minor, but traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading […]