BPA, Baby Bottles… Just the Beginning
    BPA, Baby Bottles… Just the Beginning

    One of the reasons I wrote Raising Baby Green was to help parents easily sort through and prioritize which baby products area healthiest and safest for their children. In the book I suggest alternativ…

    Cell Phones, Cigarettes, Cancer, and Children
    Cell Phones, Cigarettes, Cancer, and Children

    Whether or not cell phones cause cancer remains very controversial, but a renowned neurosurgeon has released a provocative paper reviewing over 100 scientific and medical studies, and concluded that t…

    Buy Fresh Spinach
    Buy Fresh Spinach

    As soon as the FDA E. coli warning is over. This week, 'Don't eat spinach' headlines have been trumpeted appropriately across the United States. However, you haven't seen dramatic headlines urging 'St…

    A Parent's Worst Nightmare
    A Parent’s Worst Nightmare: Gun Safety

    Dr. Greene's take on gun safety... Cancer is very scary for most people. Just the word 'cancer' makes us uncomfortable. Recently I met a mom who was just finishing treatment for cancer. It was her sec…

    Fathers for Organic – Part 6 of 7: A Father Provides
    Fathers for Organic – Part 6 of 7: A Father Provides

    Tomatoes contain an important nutrient called lycopene. Lycopene is one of nature's most potent antioxidants. It has proven success at preventing and healing damage done to cells within our bodies. Ea…

    Fathers for Organic – Part 5 of 7: A Father’s Protection
    Fathers for Organic – Part 5 of 7: A Father’s Protection

    Most children today don't grow up on a farm. Does choosing organic food make a difference for children growing up in America's suburbs? Researchers at the Department of Environmental Health in the Sch…

    Fathers for Organic – Part 4 of 7: Against All Odds
    Fathers for Organic – Part 4 of 7: Against All Odds

    The Agricultural Health Study is a huge, ongoing, forward-looking analysis of the health of farmers and their families that began in 1993-4. Over 89,000 people are participating in the study. The stud…

    Fathers for Organic – Part 3 of 7: A Father’s Insight
    Fathers for Organic – Part 3 of 7: A Father’s Insight

    My wife's name is Cheryl. When my youngest was a baby, she was radiant and full of life. We were enjoying parenting together, and enjoying being partners on DrGreene.com. She was responsible for the d…

    Acetaminophen and Liver Failure
    Acetaminophen and Liver Failure

    Acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used medicines in children. One brand name, Tylenol, is known by most parents in the U.S. Often used by itself to relieve pain or to reduce fevers, it is also…

    Cars: Hotter Than You Think
    Cars: Hotter Than You Think

    Kids (and pets) left alone in cars have died from heat stroke on days as cool as 70 degrees Fahrenheit. How can this be? We all know that on hot August afternoons the inside of cars can become unbeara…

    Eczema Treatment Warning
    Eczema Treatment Warning

    The breezy television ads for certain steroid-free eczematreatment productshave always bothered me. While they don.t say anything untrue, they do incorrectly imply that this treatment is gentler and…

    Smoking Changes Kids' Genes
    Smoking Changes Kids’ Genes

    Tobacco contains many compounds capable of damaging DNA and causing cancer. When a woman smokes during pregnancy, tobacco compounds from Mom's bloodstream slip across the placenta. They can be found b…

    Rabies Triumph!
    Rabies Triumph!

    The first person in history known to have survived rabies without getting the rabies vaccine went home from the hospital on New Year's Day 2005. The story began when a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl named…

    Shampoo and Brain Cells
    Shampoo and Brain Cells

    When Dr. Elias Aizenman declared that a common shampoo and ingredient might harm developing babies. brains, it triggered a flurry of news reports, many of them with enough information to alarm people,…

    Airplanes, Oxygen, and Children
    Airplanes, Oxygen, and Children

    In just a few hours, I will be boarding another airplane. Typically, commercial airplanes fly at an altitude of about 38,000 feet. The cabin is pressurized to make it safe and comfortable at that extr…

    Pine-fresh Scent: Depressing?!
    Pine-fresh Scent: Depressing?!

    Air fresheners and aerosol sprays can lead to sicker babies, sicker moms, and moms who are depressed, according to an October 19, 2004 announcement from the University of Bristol. This is the latest n…

    Playgrounds, Arsenic, and a Simple “Must”
    Playgrounds, Arsenic, and a Simple “Must”

    There is a simple way to protect your children from the arsenic commonly found in playgrounds? Wait a minute! There's arsenic in playgrounds?!? The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …

    The Largest Recall in History
    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 ve…

    Do You Know Where Germs Are Waiting for Your Kids?
    Do You Know Where Germs Are Waiting for Your Kids?

    In a recent survey 1,000 people were asked where they thought disease-causing germs were most likely to be found: shopping cart handles, porta potties, playground equipment, escalator handrails, or pi…

    West Nile Virus 2004
    West Nile Virus 2004

    Along with nice weather, West Nile virus is arriving for the summer. On June 8, the first 2004 case of West Nile virus in California was reported. Other cases had already been found in people in Arizo…