A 12-year-old girl in India can start her day in two very different ways. One wakes before dawn and crosses town to work as domestic help in other people’s homes, paid just enough to cover the essentials. Another slips on a backpack and heads to school, laughing with friends and imagining a future that stretches […]
Certainly, children get colds very often. However, if these runny noses and coughs keep recurring, and the ear pain or hearing difficulties follow each time, parents must not ignore it: frequently repeated upper-respiratory infections can obtain middle-ear infections (otitis media) which can, in turn, affect children’s hearing, speech, and even their school performance if the […]