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New Kids Health Info Podcast Episode - Fear of needles. What helps?

November 18, 2021
|In Show all, External News
|By Alice Black

A new episode of the popular Kids Health Info podcast on the Fear of needles is now available.

In this session, the hosts are joined by two special guests – Sonja Elia, an Immunisation Nurse Practitioner and head of the RCH Immunisation Drop-In Centre, and Dr Amanda Stock, a Paediatrician and Emergency Physician from the RCH where they discuss helpful strategies and techniques available to children and families to manage anxiety about needles.

To listen to the podcast, please click on the link below:
Kids Health Info podcast: Fear of needs. What helps?

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