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• False Assurance from Home Fetal Heart Monitors

  Home fetal heart monitors allow pregnant women to listen to their baby’s heart beat and have the assurance without a visit to the doctor’s office that the baby is healthy and well – but is…

• Do Mental Health Drugs Make Kids Fat?

  An article recently published in the Journal of American Medical Association documents findings that associate atypical antipsychotics to weight gain in children who are first-time users of the drugs. The study, headed by Dr. Christoph…

• A Little Girl Is Saved Because Her Mom Refuses to Take Her Home from the ER

  A riveting story in the Washington Post tells how a Washington area woman's advocacy in the emergency room likely saved her sick daughter from harm. Sandra Boodman's article interviews Patricia Dawn about her 4-year-old daughter…

• Heavy Backpacks Cause Lower Back Pains for Children

  Consumer Reports recently conducted a survey in rating the most durable backpacks, and found in the survey that an average 6th grader carries a backpack weighing 18.4 pounds, but some are as heavy as 30…

• Depression Prevention Works for Some At-Risk Teenagers

  One in five American teenagers have an episode of depression before they turn 18. If untreated, adolescent-onset depression often returns during adulthood and becomes a chronic and persistent condition that is crippling and even life-threatening.…

• Text Messaging: A Health Hazard for Teens

  With unlimited text messaging cell phone plans comes a surge in the number of texts sent from teenagers’ cells. Every day, an American teenager sends and receives, on average, almost 80 text messages. That’s 2,272…

• Water-Based Face Paints Recalled

  The FDA announced a voluntary recall of face paints by the distributor of the products, Oriental Trading Co., Omaha, Nebraska, reports Miranda Hitti of WebMD Health News. The recall decision was made after reports of…

• Chicago Bans Baby Bottles Made with Dangerous Chemical

  Bisphenol-A, a chemical used to harden plastics, is found in many plastic containers even though it’s known to be linked to diseases. Bisphenol-A, or BPA, have been found in animal studies to accelerate puberty and…

• Third Jardine Crib Recall in a Year

  On May 1, 2009, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced another recall of cribs made by Jardine Enterprises, the third safety recall since June 2008, reports Patricia Callahan of the Chicago Tribune. All three…

• Infant Car Seats Failed Safety Standard Tests

  The Chicago Tribune uncovered federal safety test results of infant car seats that were never publicized or even made known to some of the infant-seat manufacturers, reported Chicago Tribune’s Patricia Callahan. In the frontal crash…