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Claire McCarthy, M.D., is a pediatrician and Medical Communications Editor at Boston Children's Hospital . An assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a senior editor for Harvard Health Publications, she has been writing about health and parenting for magazines, newspapers, and the Internet for more than 20 years. She and her husband are raising five children ranging in age from 20 to 6. She blogs for Boston Children's Hospital as well as the Huffington Post. You can follow her on Twitter at @drClaire. 

About the author

Claire McCarthy, M.D., is a pediatrician and Medical Communications Editor at Boston Children's Hospital . An assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a senior editor for Harvard More »

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  • It's Children's Mental Health Awareness Week--how aware are you?
  • Drinking hand sanitizer: why the behavior of adolescents actually makes sense
  • Is it a mixed message when we give out condoms in schools?

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  • Vector: Children's Hospital Boston's science and clinical innovation blog

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