Kids are used to hearing they shouldn’t play in traffic but now a study of children, traffic, and allergies points to problems with allergies and other associated ailments when children live near major roadways and breathe the traffic-polluted air. The…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just posted on its website a revised ruling on the safety of mercury dental fillings when used in pregnant women and in small children. These silver-colored amalgams are made from a mixture…
There are many treatment options available to help families bring peace into the home and soothe ADHD children from the many troubling symptoms of the disorder. Unfortunately, medicine works with children the same way it does with adults - everyone…
An English mother’s anger turned to love at first sight when she gave birth to a son who was born a mere three weeks early, even after she’d undergone an abortion during the eighth week of pregnancy.
As the epidemic of obesity and being overweight in general increases in the United States, studies have become numerous to determine which foods and which styles of diet are the most detrimental. Some studies have implicated a diet containing fruit…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced an investigation into the link between certain drugs known as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers and the development of cancer in children and young adults taking these medications. TNF blockers…
In a study designed to test the value of breastfeeding premature infants, researchers found a challenge to the common belief that all babies benefit equally from breastfeeding. The findings of the study, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center,…
An alarming number of young children in the US do not get enough vitamin D to avert health complications that are likely to stay silent until much later in the child’s adult life. Calling it an invisible deficiency, researchers at…
Hoping today is the “beginning of the end,” the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and 19 prominent doctors and scientists filed a petition with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for a ban on eight…
According to the Center for Injury Research and Policy, kids younger than 10 and young adults aged 18 to 21 are most prone to injury relating to bunk beds than other segments of the general population. The center is a…
