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Calcium needs for children with cow’s milk allergy
Calcium: Top tips on how to include calcium foods
Cancer and education: Common questions kids ask about cancer
Cancer and education: Communicating with your child's school at diagnosis
Cancer and education: Education during your child's cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Education when your child first receives a cancer diagnosis
Cancer and education: How late effects can affect your child's learning and development
Cancer and education: How late effects can affect your student's learning
Cancer and education: Letter to inform school about your child's cancer diagnosis
Cancer and education: Letter to let other parents know about your student's cancer
Cancer and education: Missing school when your student has cancer
Cancer and education: Preparing your child to return to school or early learning
Cancer and education: Resources about cancer
Cancer and education: Special concerns for your young child with cancer
Cancer and education: Specialist support for schools to help a student with cancer
Cancer and education: Students with cancer - how brothers and sisters can be affected
Cancer and education: Supporting teenage students with cancer
Cancer and education: Supporting young children with cancer
Cancer and education: Supporting your child before, during and after cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Supporting your student at diagnosis
Cancer and education: Supporting your student during cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Supporting your student returning to school after cancer treatment
Cancer and education: Supporting your teenager with cancer
Cancer and education: The effect of your child's cancer on their siblings
Cancer and education: When your student’s cancer cannot be cured
Cancer and long-term follow up: An introduction
Cancer and long-term follow up: Female fertility after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Long-term follow-up and health after cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Male fertility after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Pregnancy and heart health after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Problems with your teeth after childhood cancer
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Thinking and learning
Cancer and long-term follow-up: Your heart after childhood cancer
Cancer tests: Reducing anxiety and distress during tests and procedures
Cancer tests: X-rays and scans to test for cancer
Cancer tests: Biopsy to test for cancer
Cancer tests: Blood tests
Cancer tests: Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
Cancer tests: Lumbar puncture
Cancer tests: Medicines to help with pain during tests and procedures
Cancer tests: Tests and procedures to diagnose cancer
Cancer tests: Tests to find out how well organs are working
Cancer treament: Tube feeding in childhood cancer
Cancer treatment
Cancer treatment: Checklist before leaving hospital
Cancer treatment: Complementary and alternative medicine
Cancer treatment: Diarrhoea during cancer treatment
Cancer treatment: Fasting and consent for procedures
Cancer treatment: Going home from hospital after your child's treatment
Cancer treatment: Immunotherapy
Cancer treatment: Pain
Cancer treatment: Radiation therapy
Cancer treatment: Radiation therapy side effects
Cancer treatment: Surgery
Cancer treatment: Taste changes due to cancer treatment medicines
Cancer treatment: Techniques to help your child
Cancer: Childhood cancer overview
Cancer: Children's cancer services in New Zealand
Cancer: FAQ about caring for your child at home
Cancer: Important contacts for your child with cancer
Cancer: Measles and chickenpox in children with low resistance to infection
Cancer: More information and support
Cancer: Nutrition
Cancer: Opportunistic infections
Cancer: Quick help guide for parents of child cancer patients
Cancer: Support when your child has cancer
Cancer: What is cancer?
Cannula
Captopril for heart failure
Car seats
Carbamazepine for preventing seizures
Carvedilol for heart failure
Cat bites: What to do about them in children
Catheters: Central venous catheters
Catheters: Semi-permanent external venous
Catheters: Temporary external venous
Cefalexin for bacterial infections
Cellulitis
Central venous catheters
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
Cerebral palsy classifications
Cerebral Palsy Youth Alliance videos
Cerebral Palsy: Listing of information, support and resources
Cerebral palsy: Stem cell treatments
Checklist for returning to school or early learning after cancer treatment
Chemotherapy drugs: Information for patients and families
Chemotherapy: Constipation
Chemotherapy: Fatigue
Chemotherapy: Hair loss
Chemotherapy: Loss of appetite
Chemotherapy: Low blood count
Chemotherapy: Low platelet count
Chemotherapy: Low red blood cell count
Chemotherapy: Low white cell count and infection
Chemotherapy: Nausea and vomiting
Chemotherapy: Side effects
Chemotherapy: Sore mouth
Chemotherapy: Sun sensitivity
Chickenpox
Chickenpox: Chickenpox and measles in children with low resistance to infection
Child abuse prevention
Child abuse: Directory for information and support
Child abuse: Never ever shake a baby
Child abuse: Worried about a child?
Child protection: Family violence
Childbirth, pregnancy and the first weeks
Childhood cancer: Clinical trials
Childhood illnesses: Keeping your home warm and dry
Choking: Checklist for preventing baby from choking
Choking: How to prevent it when your baby starts solids
Choking: What to do if your baby chokes
Chronic conditions: Coping with a diagnosis
Circumcision
Clinical trials in childhood cancer
Clobazam for preventing seizures
Clonazepam for preventing seizures
Coeliac disease
Common vulval conditions
Communication and early literacy skills
Communication development: By 1 year
Communication development: By 18 months
Communication development: By 2 years
Communication development: By 3 years
Communication development: By 4 years
Communication development: By 5 years
Communication development: Concerned about your child's development?
Communication development: Referrals to the Ministry of Education
Communication: Speech sound development
Communication: Voice
Communication: What's involved?
Complementary and alternative medicine for children with cancer
Complementary medicine: General advice about complementary and alternative medicine
Conjunctivitis
Constipation
Constipation: Lactulose for constipation
Constipation: Macrogol for constipation
Constipation: Senna for constipation
Constipation: Sodium picosulfate for constipation
Constipation: Treatment
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Cough free - the way to be video
Cough in children
COVID-19 - caring for a child with COVID-19
COVID-19 - experts discuss immunisation for 5 to 11 Year olds
COVID-19 - masks and creating airflow helps
COVID-19 - masks and ventilation
COVID-19 - multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
COVID-19 - recovering from COVID
COVID-19 - to the kids of Aotearoa
COVID-19 and genome sequencing - an animation for tamariki
COVID-19 immunisation for 5 to 11 year olds
COVID-19 immunisation for children and teens with diabetes
COVID-19 immunisation in children aged 12 and over
COVID-19 immunisation resource - for children who like a step by step explanation before their vaccine
COVID-19 immunisation: Supporting children and young people having the COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 positive and caring for a newborn
COVID-19 QR code poster
COVID-19 testing - rapid antigen tests (RATs)
COVID-19 vaccination - preparing your tamariki
COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy
COVID-19 video answering common questions about the vaccine (English)
COVID-19 video answering common questions about the vaccine (Samoan)
COVID-19 video answering common questions about the vaccine (Te Reo Māori)
COVID-19: Back to activity and sport after COVID-19
COVID-19: Breastfeeding
COVID-19: How to protect yourself and others
COVID-19: Immunisation and breastfeeding
COVID-19: Immunising children during COVID-19
COVID-19: Pregnancy
COVID-19: Supporting your child during nasal swab testing
COVID-19: Symptoms chart in 7 languages
COVID-19: What you need to know
CPAP: Continuous positive airway pressure
CPR for emergencies with children and babies
Crohn's disease
Crohn's disease treatment
Croup
Crying: What to do
Cuts, scratches and grazes
Cystic Fibrosis: Sweat test
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