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Parent Alert: Vicks DayQuil Cold and Flu Product Recalled by Company
The manufacturer has issued a recall of Vicks DayQuil Cold & Flu 24-count LiquiCaps Bonus Pack.
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Reading Leads to Measurable Brain Gains, Research Says
National Public Radio
“Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child’s brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the integrity of fibers that carry information from one part of the brain to another. (Emphasis added)
“That helped areas of the brain work [...]
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How Not to Age Well…Start Young with Tough Childhood, Study Says
News/Commentary
Is there anyone disinterested in how to age well? If so, you can go now.
One of the finest studies in 20th century medicine was the Harvard Study on Adult Development.
A second fine outcome of this study was a book by George Vaillant, M.D., the last director of the decades-long study. This book examined what had [...]
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New Study Says, in General, Teenagers Just as Active Now…Even Though There Is Obesity Epidemic
The general view of physicians and other experts has been that the spike in obesity among teenagers had to do with too little exercise and too much TV-watching.
This new study says the opposite is true.
Kids have been at least as active in the last 10 years as they were earlier while TV viewing has decreased. [...]
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Vitamin D Alert: Many Kids Deficient…
This study shows that 20% of kids ages 1-11, the ages when bones form, don’t get enough Vitamin D.
But wait! Many adults are vitamin D deficient also. Broken bones are the end result of that.
For adults, lifestyle changes may mean working through lunch, skipping the walk outside to lunch in the sunshine. That is valuable [...]
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Is There a Link Between Unhappy Childhoods and Adult Obesity?
Is an unhappy child a future obese adult?
There are some important limitations to an interesting study about this issue, noted by the researchers.
1.Reliance on self-report of BMI at age 30. (BMI, body mass index, is a measurement for obesity.)
Self-reports are the weakest kind of information, especially decades after events.
2.”A strength of the study — [...]
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Pandemic Flu Monitor: Help for Mom and Dad
Tara Parker-Pope’s Well blog offers a great Q and A for parents who want to know “how worried to be” about the pandemic flu.
This is most helpful.
Parents need to know when to call the doctor. This blog should be a big help and reduce the stress which goes with not knowing what to do.
New York [...]
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Pandemic Flu Monitor: Sesame Street’s Elmo Is Here to Help
Since school kids are the primary agents of spreading influenza, the U.S. government has developed public service announcements featuring Elmo, of Sesame Street fame.
Elmo reminds them of what to do and helps boost the parents’ reminders of the same advice.
Thank you, Elmo.
NPR
“Elmo is on the swine flu case and soon you won’t be able to [...]
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The Eyes Have It: Kids Need Exams Before School Starts
One of my friends got glasses in the fourth grade before school started.
She ran around her yard, exclaiming over leaves.
“Look!” she shouted. “They have lines in the middle. I didn’t know that!”
To her, leaves, and other things at a distance, must have made her world much like an Impressionist painting. Things were there all right, [...]
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Is Medical Tourism for You?
A growing number of patients are considering “medical tourism”—-going elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad—-as a way to save costs on surgeries which can be scheduled (non-emergencies.)
This is a short Q and A about this topic, which you will find helpful if you are interested in this tactic.
One major issue: Once you are home, who [...]
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