Well child

If you've lived in the Treasure Valley for a smoke season, you know the drill: hazy skies, that campfire smell indoors, days (sometimes weeks) of "check the AQI before you head out." For families with [...]

Between school schedules, activities, and the general chaos of family life, annual well-child visits are easy to let slip — especially once your child seems perfectly healthy. But a yearly well check does more than [...]

On average, children spend between four and six hours on some kind of screen every day. And that number can easily rise much higher during those summer months off of school. But we all know this isn't [...]

Far too many children are missing their regular checkups with their pediatricians. Roughly 13.5% of children aged 0 to 17 are not going to their checkups. This alarming figure is an improvement from decades ago. In 2008, [...]