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What Color Eyes Will Your Baby Have?
In Dr. Greene’s groundbreaking book From First Kicks to First Steps he describes how eye colors (and many other things) are inherited. How will the traits of Mom and Dad combine to create a brand new life? Here are a couple of simple online tools...
1 year 19 weeks ago
Blood Pressure in Children
What's your three-year-old's blood pressure? August 2004 guidelines from The National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on Children recommend that blood pressure screening begin at age 3 for all healthy children, and even earlier...
2 years 1 week ago
Common Fumes Cause Asthma?
Could it be that how you clean or how you decorate your home might influence whether your child develops asthma? Could the smell of new wall-to-wall carpets be linked to asthma risk? A provocative study in the September 2004 issue of Thorax suggests...
2 years 1 week ago
Pregnant and Depressed?
Health Canada has issued an August 2004 advisory that certain anti-depressant medicines taken during the third trimester of pregnancy may cause symptoms in the baby at birth. Health Canada is the country's federal department responsible health.
2 years 1 week ago
The How and When of Skin Protection
How and when sun damage occurs to children's skin may surprise you. Many parents know that in the United States alone more than 1 million skin cancers are diagnosed in adults each year, resulting from damage to the skin during childhood. Many of...
2 years 1 week ago
The Largest Recall in History
Inexpensive toy jewelry sold in vending machines can pose a significant risk to children. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has determined that many of the jewelry trinkets sold in vending machines in the U.S. between January 2002...
2 years 1 week ago
Uninsured Children? Unacceptable!
About 8.5 million children in the United States - more than one in 9 American children - do not have health insurance, according to an August 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study based on statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and...
2 years 1 week ago