MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- President Joe Biden is back in isolation and has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second day in a row, as he experiences what is known as rebound after taking Paxlovid to treat his original infection.Biden, who had left isolation three days prior after testing negative, returned to the safety measure on Saturday after testing positive. He tested positive again on Sunday.Despite the test results, the president “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms and continues to feel quite well,” White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter released on Sunday describing Biden's condition. “There is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time.” The president had previously isolated for five days and will do so again at the...

SUNDAY, July 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Sometimes it's difficult for parents to get their child to take necessary medication.One expert who spends part of her workday guiding parents through this challenge offers some suggestions to make the ordeal easier. Emily Glarum, a child life specialist at the Heart Institute at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, offers these tips: Be honest, practice it, provide choices, set a schedule and let the child take little sips or use a straw."We like to promote honesty," Glarum said in a hospital news release. "Hiding medicine in food can make kids feel tricked and add some mistrust or even some aversions around different foods. "What I've run into in the past is, the child may start to detect that their medicine has been mixed in with foods, and then...

FRIDAY, July 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Children with ADHD may have less flexibility in the brain circuitry that allows for seamless "multitasking," a new study suggests.Research has shown that kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder often have more difficulty with so-called cognitive flexibility than their peers without the disorder.That refers to people's ability to switch their attention from one task to another, then back again, in daily life: Can you put some soup on the stove, then send an email and chat with your kids, without forgetting about the soup?Such mental deftness is also key in communicating, said Weili Lin, senior researcher on the new study. People have very different ways of speaking to a friend, a child or a co-worker, and they need to be able to...