The nation’s leading pediatrician’s group now says toddlers should remain in rear-facing car seats until the age of 2, rather than the previous age requirement of 12 months.
In a new policy published in the April 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online March 21), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises parents to keep their toddlers [...]
Nearly 10,000 children under 2 are rushed to emergency departments each year as a result of injuries associated with cribs, playpens and bassinets, a new study has found.
Conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, the study examined such injuries among [...]
Parents are still giving over-the-counter cough and cold medicine to children under 2, despite warnings and a recommendation by the US Food and Drug Administration against doing so.
Research has linked over-the-counter cough and cold products to poisoning or death in hundreds of children, ages 2 and younger. And studies have shown that these medicines do [...]
Adding new evidence to the debate on the best treatment for middle-ear infections in young children, clinical researchers have found antibiotics to be more effective than a placebo in relieving symptoms.
Most American children with middle-ear infections are treated with antibiotics. But for children with mild symptoms, US clinical practice guidelines generally recommend watchful waiting, reserving [...]
The number one cause of death among children is traffic accidents. Now, a campaign promoting anti-distracted driving employer policies in 2010 has reached a record-breaking 5,000 organizations representing more than 20 million US employees.
On the one-year anniversary this month of FocusDriven, the first national nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for victims of distracted driving, the [...]
Despite recent advances using checklists and other safety protocols, doctors and hospitals are still committing too many preventable errors according to a recent study. The study found medical mistakes ranging from undergoing the wrong operation at the wrong operating table to undergoing surgery on the wrong side of your body.
A recent Archives of Surgery report [...]
A highly regarded British medical journal, The Lancet, has issued a rare public retraction of a 1998 paper that sparked a firestorm about potential links between vaccines and autism.
Children in the U.S., Britain and many other Western countries are usually given the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine at age 1. But when researchers, led by Dr. [...]
We live in a hypersexualized culture where young girls already want to be ’sexy’ even while still believing in Santa Claus. Sharon Maxwell’s new book The Talk: What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex is a fantastic resource to help parents understand today’s youth sexual culture and jump start a productive dialog [...]
Stacey Anvarinia called police to report that her boyfriend had assualted her. While police were conducting their investigation, they noticed that Anvarinia was drunk and that she was breastfeeding her 6-week-old baby. Police arrested the woman and charged her with child neglect.
Since then, the blogosphere has erupted in debate about whether drinking while breastfeeding is [...]
Florida lawyer, Andrew Meynhart was arrested Friday in Cocoa Beach and charged with stealing $100,000 from his 9-year-old client.
Meynhart doctored his financial records and never gave the boy the money he was awarded in a 2006 lawsuit. Authorities do not know where the money is at this time.
The Florida Bar revoked Meynhart’s license to practice [...]
