Teenage marijuana use has decreased slightly for three years running (after peaking at 44% who had used the drug at least once in 1997). According to the 2000 annual report of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, 40% of today's 7-12 graders...
I heard from a reader about an extremely common practice that most of us have been warned never to do:
My wife was cleaning our three-year old daughter's ear with a cotton swab. She turned into the swab causing it to penetrate her ear causing...
Many children are allergic to house dust. But what is it in dust that they are allergic to? Much of dust is made up of flakes of our old skin. By itself this isn't a problem, but as we've known for a while, many children are allergic to the house...
Scooter injuries have skyrocketed since May, sending a total of 27,600 people to emergency rooms (including over 23,000 children), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report in the December 15th, 2000 Morbidity and...
Each time surveyors ask people if they would like to connect with their own doctors online, the answer is overwhelmingly yes. Doctors, however, have been reluctant to integrate the Internet into their practices. It's not that doctors have been...
Secondhand cigarette smoke saps nutrients directly out of kid's blood, according to a report in the December 2000 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Important antioxidants, such as beta-carotene, are especially depleted. Found in...
Babies who had been diagnosed with colic cried for about an hour less per day than expected when they were switched from a cow’s milk formula to a hypoallergenic formula in which the protein had been hydrolyzed (cut into little pieces that are less...
One evening a child has a high fever, a severe headache, and a stiff neck. It might be just the flu -- or it might be meningococcal meningitis. This devastating disease, though still uncommon, has been striking more often throughout the last decade...
The weeks between the American Presidential election and the Inauguration are usually spent preparing for the next four years. This includes building teams and setting national agendas. It is traditionally a time when election struggles are put away...
Inhaled steroids may be important for treating asthma, but they may also decrease bone mass in the children who use them, especially those who take more than 400 mcg per day, according to a study reported in the October 2000 issue of the Journal of...
Bidi cigarettes, sometimes called kretek or clove cigarettes (although the different names have their own specific meanings), have increased in popularity more than 400% in the last few years. In my area, 58% of high school students have...
Many children go through a phase of wanting to sleep in their parent’s bed. If you don't choose to have a "family bed", click here for tips to get them back into their own beds.
