Confronting the Worst With a Dying Child
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- New research attempts to help parents sift through one of the most difficult decisions they will ever have to make: Whether to tell their terminally ill child that he or she is dying.
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Not every mother would allow her hair to be cut by her 4-year-old daughter, but Cindy Hurst thought it was a perfect idea; the chemo was going to take it anyway. Hurst is among hundreds of thousands of parents in the United States looking for a way to help their children understand that Mommy or Daddy has cancer.
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A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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HOW to deal with paedophiles is one of the most difficult issues confronting any society.   The protection of children must be one of the priorities of any government.
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One family's struggle with their son's behavioural problems in mainstream schools.
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Trying to teach parents the skills to communicate with and soothe tantrum-prone children.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Parents who talk to their terminally ill children about death say they do not regret doing so. However, those who forego these conversations often report feeling remorse later on for
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Beyond her sorrow, the toughest dilemma Diane Quirley faced in the wake of her 23-year-old son Shawn&#39;s death in June 1997 was whether to donate his organs for transplant procedures.
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Talking about parentsÂ funeral plans can be uncomfortable but it can resolve important issues.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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LONDON - A baby girl living in &quot;intolerable pain and suffering&quot; should be allowed to die, doctors said yesterday. Medical experts said even if 11-month-old Charlotte Wyatt survived another year, she would be severely disabled and need 24-hour care.
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Should parents talk to their dying children about death? A Swedish study found that parents whose children died of cancer had no regrets about talking to them about death, while some who didn't do so were sorry later.
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Children and staff at an Armagh school where a six-year old boy died on Monday are being offered counselling.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Last month's devastating tsunamis in Asia are saturating the television airwaves with images that can disturb children.
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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It&#39;s a lesson children learn even before their ABCs â-ay you&#39;re sorry when you hurt someone. But it&#39;s now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful