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A family sitting around a candle-lit holiday meal, while one person stands to carve a turkey.

Dr. Yasmine Omar shares ways to help defuse stressful travel and family situations that often come with the holidays.

Helping the most vulnerable: Kids in foster care

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 children, Department of Pediatrics, family, Foster Care, health policy, public health, Texas Children's Hospital

What can be done to improve the child welfare system and help make the lives of foster care children better?

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Another sibling at 65? DNA testing is redefining the modern family

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, DNA, Dr. Thomas Wheeler, family, Sperm Donor

I remember the day well. It was a Sunday afternoon several months ago when I received this text from my oldest daughter – “I think

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Life after the death of my child

July 6, 2018July 16, 2018 clinical ethics, family, Grief, Jill Oliver Robinson

Before my eight-month-old daughter, Abby, died unexpectedly, I thought I knew plenty about grief. The pervasively popular five stages of grief model, developed by Dr.

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The role of family relationships during recovery from mental illness

June 8, 2016August 15, 2018 Affiliates, Baylor Psychiatry Clinic, Dr. Jon Allen, family, Healthcare, Houston, Janice Poplack, Menninger Clinic, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Mental Health, Nicole Blanton, Psychiatry

Families coping with the mental illness of a loved one are often overwhelmed by a range of emotions. Dr. Jon G. Allen, assistant professor of