Evenflo High Chair Recall

Evenflo is recalling 643,000 high chairs after receiving hundreds of reports of seat backs coming loose or parts falling off, and injuring dozens of children. Evenflo, based in Ohio, recalled 95,000 Majestic high...

Near Sri Lanka’s War Zone, the Injured Struggle to Cope

" The ravages of Sri Lanka’s civil war were on full display Thursday in the crowded wards of the municipal hospital in this eastern port city, 40 miles from the front line. Catholic nuns with bullet and shrapnel...

Blueberries May Shrink Tumors in Babies

Along with the blueberries, Scientist clearly have shown that berries, which contain a variety of anticancer compounds, have a genome-wide effect on the expression of genes involved in cancer development. Black...

Tetanus kills 140 000 newborn babies every year

Every three minutes, somewhere in the world - but mainly in developing countries - a newborn baby dies of neonatal tetanus. That comes down to ± 140 000 infants a year. The use of unclean instruments to cut the...

Sickened Milk Scandal Victims May Top 90,000 in China

Though the Chinese government has refused to release new figures as to how many children fell ill as a result of the melamine tainted milk scandal, investigation into local media shows that the number may be in the 90,000's - a figure that is nearly double what officials...

Californians have much higher levels of flame-retardant in their blood

Looks like worries of an epidemic of Spinal Tap style spontaneous human combustions is out of the question for Californians.  A shocking report is released by journal Environmental Science &...

Candy with chemical in Chinese milk ... FOUND IN CONN. !!

" HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An industrial chemical blamed for sickening thousands of infants in China was found in candy in four Connecticut stores this week, a state official said Wednesday. Days after...

Obama calls "Born Alive" Ad a Lie

" In 1999 a gruesome discovery was made that an Illinois hospital was shelving babies to die in a soiled utility room who had survived their abortions. The Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act was...

Hong Kong cake found with melamine

The tainted milk scandal in China is widening outside of baby milk, with the toxic chemical malamine now being found in a cake in Hong Kong."The Hong Kong government says melamine has been detected in a locally...

China reminds us of benefits of breastfeeding

The use of formula for babies presents avoidable dangers."    * Lisa Amir – September 23, 2008–""YOU made that up!" exclaimed Richard Stubbs on 774 Melbourne radio recently when I was attempting to reframe the "benefits of breastfeeding" into the "risks of...

Baby milk powder found to cause kidney stones in Chinese infants

China, September 11th -- One baby died and a dozen more are sick after being fed milk formula that lead to the formation of kidney stones. Crystallized salts in baby kidneys can result in infection and permanent...

Drug Screens Needed for Kids in ER

" Researchers Recommend Routine Drug Screening for Children Who Come to ER With Apparent Life-Threatening Event By Kelli Miller StacyWebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD A significant number of infants tested positive for cough and cold medicines on a...

Singapore children get less sleep than those in Western countries

Possibly as a result of the voice 'noise' that was caused by his parents... he he "Singapore (ANTARA News) - Nearly 45 per cent of parents in Singapore believe their children are not getting enough sleep, far higher than the estimated 26 per cent of parents in Western...

900 First Nation's Residents Airlifted out of James Bay Due to Flooding

At least 900 people were evacuated by helicopter on Sunday from a First Nation's community along the coast of James Bay, due to flooding fears. As rivers continue to swell after ice melt and rain, areas of the...

Some 350 infants treated for malnutrition, eight die in Lebak

"Three of the baby patients were in critical condition and needed to be treated intensively, Deputy Director of Adjdarmo Hospital Meutia Elda said here on Friday. Malnutrition patients are vulnerable to other...

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