Tough to Get Your Kid to Take Medicine? An Expert Offers Tips | Health

Tough to Get Your Kid to Take Medicine? An Expert Offers Tips | Health

One expert who spends part of her workday guiding parents through this challenge offers some suggestions to make the ordeal easier.


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