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Look What We Found! Slip-On Winter Booties
Now that snowstorms across the U.S. are slowing down, it’s time to stop shoveling the snow and move onto something more fun: playing in it! We just found Stonz Wear booties, which slip on over your...
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New Checklist May Help Diagnose Autism in Babies
By answering 24 questions, parents and pediatricians now have a better way of determining if a baby is showing symptoms and signs of autism by age 1. The Infant-Toddler Checklist was featured as part...
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Infants’ Tylenol Being Updated, Plus Tips on Giving Medicine to Kids
In light of last week’s acetaminophen news, Parents spoke to Dr. Edward Kuffner, M.D., Vice President, OTC Medical Affairs & Clinical Research for McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the makers of Tylenol....
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FDA Advisors Vote to Include Acetaminophen Dosing Instructions for Infants
The FDA’s Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Pediatric Advisory Committee met yesterday morning to discuss adding dosing directions for infants to the labels of medication containing...
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Breast Cancer Charity Overstated Screening Benefits, Researchers Say Researchers say Susan G. Komen for the Cure overstated the benefit mammograms have on survival rates of women with breast cancer....
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Pacifiers May Have Emotional Consequences for Boys Pacifiers may stunt the emotional development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to try on facial expressions during infancy. (via...
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New Field of Developmental Neuroscience Changes Our Understanding of Early Years of Human Life For the first time, scientists have amassed a large collection of research that looks “under the skin,”...
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Obama Win Clears Health Law Hurdle, Challenges Remain President Barack Obama’s re-election eliminates the possibility of a wholesale repeal of his signature healthcare reform law, but leaves questions...
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Likely Basis of Birth Defect Causing Premature Skull Closure in Infants Identified An international team of geneticists, pediatricians, surgeons and epidemiologists from 23 institutions across three...
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FDA looking at caffeine impact on kids after new Wrigley gum Wrigley’s new Alert Energy Caffeine Gum has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to look into the potential impact added caffeine may...
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