Peter Nieman

Dr. Nieman: Parents intuitively support their infants without even knowing it

Nieman: High blood pressure not just an issue for adults

The moral lives of children: Emotional health as important as physical

Dr.Nieman: New technology aids in diagnosis and medication treatment

Nieman: Still much to learn about why some rise from the ashes of childhood trauma and others don't

At the start of my clinical practice in 1987, I had very little appreciation of the importance of parental guilt. Very few parents brought it up as a personal…

Having been a pediatrician for the past 36 years, I always wondered what it would be like to be a grandparent one day. The good news is that my wife and I…

Imagine your child suffers a concussion and the ER doctor, after an appropriate checkup, tells you it is safe to go home. On the way out of the busy ER, a…

Does it help to tell an upset child to take a deep breath?

A recent headline in a national newspaper caught my eye: “WHO says that the end of the pandemic is in sight.” Whether that is true or not remains to be…

Organizations such as the Canadian Pediatric Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization regularly review and update their…

Surveys such as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey provide helpful information about eating habits in North America. According to this…

A major headline that caught my attention less than a week ago was “As youth mental illness soars, Task Force recommends screening children and youth as young…

Over the past two to three decades, we have seen major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of autism. The term autism is rarely used these days. It has…

When I was in medical school, the term “political correctness” did not exist. I remember first learning about what we now call ADHD — in the 1970s it was known…

After completing medical school in 1979, I became very interested in caring for children. A few years later, I found myself at the Alberta Children’s Hospital…

We live in an era where depression, anxiety and the prevalence of ADHD seem to be at an all-time high. The key question is very simple: what is the medical…