Many parents are incapable of giving their children the correct dose of liquid medicines, claim Australian researchers.
Using household spoons to measure them out could mean a potentially dangerous overdose, they say.
Children under five are at the highest risk of accidental overdose. Read the rest of this entry »
There were almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK last year, figures show.
Experts at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) say young people are most affected.
And one in 10 of 15-24 year olds with an STI became infected again within a year.
Health ministers said they would look at what more could be done to increase young people’s awareness of risks. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s easy to know when to take babies and toddlers to the doctor for well-baby and well-child checkups.
The schedule is pretty rigid, and we have the need for immunizations to consider too. So at two weeks, two months, six months, etc. we trot off to the doctor’s office for a checkup. After two years old, it’s still easy – once a year visits are the norm and are often covered by insurance. Plus your child is still getting immunizations during these years. Read the rest of this entry »
A study in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Sleep suggests that a dose of extra sleep on the weekend may be good medicine for adults who repeatedly stay up too late or wake up too early during the workweek. However, even a night of 10 hours in bed may not be enough to cure the negative effects of chronic sleep restriction.
Results show that neurobehavioral impairments such as increased lapses of attention and delayed reaction times accumulated across a period of five days when sleep was restricted to less than four hours per night. Behavioral, subjective and physiological measures of alertness improved significantly after a night of recovery sleep, with larger doses of sleep producing greater gains. Read the rest of this entry »
If you, or someone in your family, smokes and you have children, then it is important to ensure that they are not the recipients of, which is classified as a known human (Group A) carcinogen by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Secondhand smoke is scientifically correlated with a range of illnesses from asthma to cancer to heart disease, and it is even more damaging to children whose lungs and immune systems are still developing. Given the statistics, the less exposure your kids have, the better. Read the rest of this entry »
Many of us have a phobia – an extreme or irrational fear – of something. Most of the time we can live with such fears, but in some cases they can take over a person’s life. Luckily, help is at hand.
What is a phobia?
A phobia is an intense fear or feeling of anxiety that occurs only in a particular situation that frightens you. Read the rest of this entry »
