When failure to thrive has a connection to problems at home, your doctor may consult social services. Hospital care, including the use of feeding tubes , can provide extra nourishment in severe cases.

Failure to thrive, at least, had a clinical ring to it, if only because clinicians were writing about it as early as 1915. Medical papers have linked it to all kinds of issues in infants, ...

The first known appearance of “failure to thrive” was in the 1933 edition of a medical textbook, “The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.” ...

At the pediatrician's office, Dee Dee is told that Gypsy has "failure to thrive"—which sends both Dee Dee and her mother into a panic. "It's a creepy name, but it's not too bad," the doctor says.

America’s children are in crisis. And by extension so is America’s future. Failure to thrive is a known cause of infant mortality when a baby is not cuddled, caressed, and cherished.

I was referring to studies on “Failure to Thrive” in orphaned children, particularly the research conducted in Romanian orphanages. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of ...