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Almost any children’s medicine you buy comes with a handy measuring device to help you dispense the proper dosage. In the box, or attached to the bottle itself, you’ll find a little cup, spoon or dropper that is clearly marked with the various recommended dosages. This takes the guesswork out of giving children the right amount of medicine based on their weight and age.
But after the first use, that handy plastic measuring device has a habit of disappearing. And if doesn’t turn up after plumbing the depths of the junk drawer and searching the cupboards, most of us will reach for a regular spoon from the cutlery drawer. But a cereal spoon is no substitute for a precisely marked medicine spoon and using one could be dangerous for your child. Continue reading »
Summer’s here, and the warm weather brings the bugs out. In addition to the summer joys of mosquitoes, wasps and black flies, parents get to worry about lice hitchhiking home from summer camp on their kids’ hair.
The New York Times’ Well blog estimates that Americans spend $1 billion a year on lice treatments to get rid of this persistent, itchy bugs. That’s a lot of dough to deal with the critters.
There’s good news though: you don’t have to take your kids to a “lice salon” to get rid of the infestation. While you can drop $300 a head on a professional nitpicker to clear out your child’s hair, there are home remedies that work just fine for a small fraction of the cost.
After being barred from practicing medicine in Britain earlier this week, Andrew Wakefield vowed to continue his research here in the U.S.
The Chicago Tribune reports that he told a “small, cheering crowd” at a rally in Chicago that he will continue to research the link between autism and vaccines.
This worries me, because he was barred from practicing medicine over unethical research practices.
The overwhelming majority of parents would like to be able to email their child’s pediatrician, according to a new study conducted by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. The Baltimore Sun reports that “most pediatricians are not swapping e-mail with parents. While e-mail and text-messaging have crept into nearly every corner of daily life, they’ve made few inroads into doctor-patient communications.”
Dr. Michael Crocetti, the lead researcher in the study, gives a slew of reasons as to why emailing patients may not be a good idea:
* Doctors fear that parents will use e-mail in emergency situations.
* Email may lead to misunderstandings because tone is so easily lost online.
* Doctors are concerned a message sent to a non-secure computer is a privacy violation.
* Doctors worry that emailing with patients puts them on call 24/7 and wonder if they can charge for computer visits.
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Finally. British doctor Andrew Wakefield, whose questionable research into a link between autism and vaccination began a tidal wave of anti-vaccine sentiment in the U.S and Britain, has lost his medical license.
For most of us the word “ultrasound” conjures images of a pregnant woman getting a peek at her unborn baby. We might have a whole new, and opposite, set of associations with ultrasound soon.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina are starting human trials on using birth control as a safe, effective, reversible form of birth control for men.
Think your kid has a food allergy? Think again, says a new report commissioned by the federal government. Food allergies are much less common than most of us believe.
While only about 8 percent of kids and 5 percent of adults genuinely suffer from food allergies, 30 percent of us think we do. Why are we so confused?
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