Intensive parenting involves deep involvement in children's lives, often at the cost of parents' well-being. While it can strengthen the parent-child bond and enhance development, it risks causing ...

Intensive insulin therapy reduces morbidity and mortality in patients in surgical intensive care units (ICUs), but its role in patients in medical ICUs is unknown. In a prospective, randomized, ...

Supervised, enriching playtime. Frequent conversations about thoughts and feelings. Patient, well-reasoned explanations of household rules. And extracurriculars. Lots and lots of extracurriculars.

Since having our first kid two years ago, my wife and I have become the type of parents we used to pity: intensive parents. To an extent we didn’t anticipate, we have found ourselves pouring time into ...

This online activity has been developed to enhance the health professional’s ability to effectively prescribe controlled medications while minimizing their misuse whenever possible. Take the ...

Usually, high blood pressure is seen as a serious warning sign that needs to be treated quickly to prevent heart attacks or strokes. But this new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests ...

Different hospitals may use these specialized units for cardiac or critical care, which may be similar to an intensive care unit (ICU). Once you don’t need 24-hour critical or cardiac care, you will ...

Within 24 hours after admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), adults who were expected to require treatment in the ICU on 3 or more consecutive days were randomly assigned to undergo either ...

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