kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 15 2008 | health, kids, education
Scary. This is why I'm raising my kid in Washington.
Quoted: Kids who live in neighborhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new study shows.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | weird, health, kids
All personal property and just silliness issues aside, this is quite an ugly tree -- and how scary that the public health people in Wales think that the problem with being pricked by a hypodermic needle is the prick itself.
Quoted: A 150-year-old monkey puzzle tree is facing the chop after health and safety experts said its needles are a danger. The 50ft-tall tree is to be felled after it's needles were likened to syringes.
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‘Every effort is made in this day and age to prevent children playing with discarded syringe needles,’ a report stated.
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‘Every effort must be made to prevent children coming into contact with these potentially, equally sharp needles.’ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2008 | news, health, kids
This is really distressing. There is a lot of discussion in the mommy blog community about BPA (Bisphenol A) and it is very easy to search for products that do not contain this chemical. Luckily we did not bottle feed our little guy at all.
Quoted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A chemical in some plastic food and drink packaging including baby bottles may be tied to early puberty and prostate and breast cancer, the U.S. government said on Tuesday. ...
The National Toxicology Program went further than previous U.S. government statements on possible health risks from BPA.
It said: "There is some concern for neural and behavioral effects in fetuses, infants and children at current human exposures." The findings expressed concern about exposure in these populations, "based on effects in the prostate gland, mammary gland, and an earlier age for puberty in females."
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2007 | health, kids
This seems like a really bad idea as I can only guess that the pill has never been tested for children. Pumping an 11 year old body with hormones doesn't seem like a good idea. Not to mention the fact that there is no way that the kids are going to remember to take a daily pill anyway - a lot of adults can't even handle that responsibility.
Quoted: After an outbreak of pregnancies among middle school girls, education officials in this city have decided to allow a school health center to make birth control pills available to girls as young as 11.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 26 2007 | health, news, kids
So sad but this says that he's 3 times the average weight for his age. Not good.
Quoted: Authorities are considering taking an 8-year-old boy who weighs 218 pounds into protective custody unless his mother improves his diet, officials said Monday.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2007 | health, kids, vaccinations, Merck
It seems that drug companies should not be able to fund public health policies to promote their own products ...
Quoted: But Merck has not just bought air time, it has funded initiatives in states which would require girls to get the vaccine.
If the vaccine became widely used, analysts estimate that Merck could make between $2 to $4 billion on Gardasil.
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