Chicken soup has been used for treating common respiratory illnesses at least since the 12th century. A study published in the October 2000 issue of Chest explains why this home remedy has held on so long -- it may really help! In addition to the...
Music is a key to the inner world of children. It's also a great way to teach adolescents (and younger children) about health and social responsibility. Between the ages of 13 and 18, the average teen listenes to 10,500 hours of music. Two family...
No, once again, breakfast emerges as the most important meal for parents to focus on with their kids. Many children (and adults) still skip breakfast. A study, published in the November 2000 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that...
I hear this from parents all the time -- and they are right! A study in the online version of Pediatrics found that pharmacies often dispense insufficient liquid antibiotic to complete an antibiotic course. If thirty 1 tsp doses are to be given...
Most doctors feel like they do a good job communicating with patients. But when researchers analyzed audiotaped conversations between doctors and patients who knew they were being taped to study communication effectiveness, they found that adequate...
Falls from windows are a known, common cause of injuries to children who live in cities, but nobody had really tracked this injury outside the urban setting -- until a 1study published September 2000. Of over 2000 children admitted to a suburban...
Washington DC, October 17, 2000 - Three leading Internet health organizations announced the formation of a coordinating committee to collaborate on ethical conduct codes. The committee aims to ensure a system of e-health codes that is understandable...
While inhaled steroids can reduce inflammation, improve airway function, decrease the amount of asthma medication required, and prevent asthma flare-ups, we've known for some time that these strong medicines also slow children's rate of growth in...
To determine whether adults can recognize babies in pain, researchers photographed the faces of infants when at rest, when exposed to light, when their heels were being rubbed, and during a heel stick for a routine blood test. Adults were asked to...
HIV is a time-bomb. Because the moment of infection is silent, and because the symptoms of AIDS often don't show up until many years later, we may be misled into thinking that HIV is not a major problem for teens. But the Office of National AIDS...
Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) points to a growing problem: an estimated 35 million teens, in the United States alone, are missing one or more doses of childhood vaccines. This leaves these teens vulnerable to...
The October 2000 Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that, while we still have a long way to go, we have made tremendous progress in child mortality over the last 50 years. Today, the probability that a newborn baby will die...
We've known now for several years that discontinuing the use of a pacifier can reduce ear infections in children. A study published in the September 2000 issue of Pediatrics looked at the effect of simply having nurses give a leaflet to parents...
It's easy for the eyes to glaze over when looking at the long words listed in the ingredients of cough and cold medications. Learning to recognize a few words, though, is an important skill to learn (and not that difficult). It may save your life.
In an effort to identify plants that can filter air in sealed environments, NASA spent 2 years testing common plants to determine the best natural filters. Check out the top ten list to find plants that perform the best in removing formaldehyde, benzene and carbon monoxide, three common yet toxic contaminants that we regularly find indoors.
