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Safety of Vaccines and Medications Tops List of Priorities for Parents

by Honey Berk, Posted Oct 12th 2010 1:18PM

Parents want more research done on the safety of children's vaccines. Credit: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on medical research related to children's health issues, yet parents have little or no ...When asked, nearly nine out of 10 parents rate research on the safety of vaccines, and effectiveness and safety of medicines, as the most important topics regarding children's health, according to a recent poll.
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Making Sick Days Better

by Kathy Peel, Posted Feb 25th 2009 10:00AM

It happens to every mom. On the day you're giving a presentation or attending an important event, your child says, Mommy, my tummy feels funny. One memorable morning I was dressing for a meeting when first-grader James announced that he was ...
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Acupuncture and Pregnancy?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Dec 27th 2008 11:02AM

Being pregnant is a beautiful, wonderful thing. It can also be a pain in the--well, it can be a pain in a lot of places. Those of us who've tackled the trail more than once can attest to back problems, leg problems, headaches and swelling places we ...
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Medicine and juice a bad mix?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Aug 21st 2008 1:00PM

Having a sick child is no fun for anyone and we all try to avoid it as best we can. For me, not wanting my 7-year-old to get sick is more than about not wanting her to feel bad and maybe miss a day or two of school. It's the medicine. Getting meds ...
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Pregnancy labels for medicine?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted May 31st 2008 2:00PM

The Federal Drug Administration is proposing a change to the way medicines are labeled with warnings for pregnant women. Doctors have been complaining forever that data was available that was not included on labels or that the information that was ...
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Here, honey, have a placebo; you'll feel better

by Susan Wagner, Posted May 27th 2008 11:00AM

Recently, we had a week where, for various reasons, we were unable to get my son's anxiety medication refilled. He was fine, but MY anxiety level was way up. A friend joking suggested that what we needed was a placebo -- you know, some pretend ...
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Text messaging to keep kids healthy

by Sandy Maple, Posted May 22nd 2008 12:03PM

When kids are little, the responsibility for making sure they take necessary medications falls to the parents. You may have to hold them down and force them at times, but that is totally doable. But when they get older, necessity dictates that kids ...
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Get a heart checkup before you get ADHD meds

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 23rd 2008 9:03AM

The American Heart Association has issued a new recommendation that children get a complete heart exam before beginning a regimen of drugs such as Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta. These medicines carry warnings about risks for those with heart ...
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A cure for acne

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 21st 2008 3:02PM

Ah, those teenage years, full of challenges. There's puberty and the awkwardness of dealing with the opposite sex and learning to drive and preparing for college and, of course, acne. That last one, however, might just become a thing of the past, ...
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Parents choose faith over science

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Mar 27th 2008 8:38PM

In what is perhaps the most heated of debates about our children, our beliefs and our medicine, a girl has died after her parents chose prayer over doctors. The girl suffered from a rare form of diabetes. Madeline Kara Neumann, 11, of Wisconsin, ...
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Jenny McCarthy: Diet affects autism

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Mar 6th 2008 8:35PM

Actress Jenny McCarthy believes that diet and vitamins can help ease the symptoms of autism. She's calling on doctors and others in the medical community nation wide to listen to her. Jenny's five-year-old son Evan is autistic and she travels ...
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Some folk medicines contain lead

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jan 22nd 2008 2:27PM

Toys tainted with lead paint have received a lot of publicity lately and as a result, parents have become more aware of the dangers of exposure to toxic lead. And while lead paint is the most common source of lead poisoning in the United States, it ...
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How to help the medicine go down

by Sandy Maple, Posted Nov 6th 2007 3:29PM

In the very early hours of Monday morning, Ellie woke up in pain. It seems that after a week of sniffles and coughing, she had developed an ear infection. I tried my best to make her comfortable enough to get through the night, but it wasn't ...
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Another side of school birth control

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 24th 2007 8:02AM

One of the most important parts of the pharmacy software I worked on when I worked for Long's Drugs was responsible for ensuring that patients weren't dispensed medicines that would interfere with each other or, even work, interact negatively. A ...
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Cold medicine doesn't work on kids

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Oct 19th 2007 3:28PM

On the back of last week's news that infant cold medicines have been pulled from store shelves, today experts have revealed that are seemingly ineffective on children younger than 12. As such, pediatricians are recommending that the FDA immediately ...
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