Superbugs at School (and Preschool)
    Superbugs at School (and Preschool)

    MRSA infections now kill more Americans than does HIV/AIDS, according to a CDC report in the October 17, 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association. Most of these infections are in adults over a…

    Baby Breastfeeding diarrhea pneumonia prevention
    Breastfeeding, Diarrhea, and Pneumonia

    In the modern United Kingdom, about 12 percent of all normal, healthy, full-term babies are hospitalized at least once in their first 8 months of life. Many of these hospitalizations are for pneumonia…

    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…

    Flu Vaccine Recommendations
    Flu Vaccine Recommendations

    Flu season is almost here. Most people who get the flu feel miserable, but recover without major problem. Nevertheless, each year, the flu kills an average of about 36,000 people in the US alone. Over…

    Square of dark chocolate cough suppressant
    Sweet Dreams: Dark Chocolate Cough Suppressant

    So your child has a cold, and can?t stop coughing. In the colder months, these sorts of viruses run rampant. Coughing, is, at its core, a beneficial function of the human body, working to expel viruse…

    Chocolate and Coughs
    Chocolate and Coughs

    Could chocolate for coughs be more effective than codeine? And if so, how much chocolate would it take? Research published November 17, 2004 in FJ Express, which will appear in The FASEB Journal in Ja…

    Mild Flu Year?!?
    Mild Flu Year?!?

    It's too soon to say for sure, but early signs suggest that this year may be a mild flu season in the United States - despite the fear frenzy the flu vaccine shortage has fueled. Here's the first clue…

    Mercury Free versus No Added Mercury
    Mercury Free versus No Added Mercury

    A concerned father recently contacted me about the no-added-mercury flu vaccine. He had called the manufacturers who admitted that there were still trace amounts of mercury in the vaccine. He wanted t…

    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…

    Zinc for Pneumonia
    Zinc for Pneumonia

    What we eat affects our health. Zinc is an essential nutrient that has many functions in the body, including being critical for optimal operation of the immune system. We know that getting enough zinc…

    West Nile Babies
    West Nile Babies

    What happens when pregnant women get bitten by a mosquito? West Nile virus infection has become increasingly common in the United States. In 2003 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) r…

    Bird Flu, SARS, and Public Health
    Bird Flu, SARS, and Public Health

    A six-year-old boy in Thailand has died from bird flu, along with seven others in southeast Asia whose deaths have been confirmed to have been caused by this avian flu. Although a deadly epidemic is p…

    Avian Flu
    Avian Flu

    The flu epidemic appears to be winding down in the United States, having killed 93 children between October 2003 and January 6, 2004. About a third of these kids had another underlying medical conditi…

    Heroic Polio Effort Hamstrung
    Heroic Polio Effort Hamstrung

    A worsening polio outbreak in West Africa has already spread to nations where polio had been eradicated and has prompted hundreds of thousands of volunteers and health workers to race to immunize 15 m…

    Polio - It’s A Small World After All
    Polio – It’s A Small World After All

    Hundreds of thousands of health workers and volunteers are mobilizing to reach every child in 5 countries with polio vaccine within just a few days ? in countries where polio had previously been eradi…

    October Protection For Your Child
    October Protection For Your Child

    Most parents would be surprised to learn that in the US the 6th leading cause of death among children under 4 years old is the flu and its complications. We know the elderly are at risk; but so are yo…

    Protecting Babies from HIV
    Protecting Babies from HIV

    My heart goes out to pregnant women with HIV. Even though treatments for HIV continue to improve, its presence casts a dark shadow over a special time. In 2002, about 800,000 babies caught HIV from th…

    Milk Protein Spray for Preventing Infection
    Milk Protein Spray for Preventing Infection

    The FDA declared in August 2003 that it is safe to spray lactoferrin, a naturally occurring milk protein, onto raw beef to help prevent infections from disease-causing bacteria such as E. coli and sal…

    Cough Season
    Cough Season

    We all want to help a coughing child. But a big difference looms between what should happen and what does happen when kids have bronchitis and other cough illnesses. Even though overall antibiotic use…

    Pack it with the School Supplies
    Pack it with the School Supplies

    A list of the top 10 recent research articles in children's health appeared in the August 2003 issue of Pediatric News, the leading newspaper for pediatricians. Number two on the list was about how al…