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• Motherhood, war, and attachment: what does it all mean?

  ntil you’re lumbar gives out or the child receives a high-school diploma, and parenting is, indeed, one compromise after another based on the exigencies of the moment, what consistent tenets can you practice that meet the now 60-year-old concept of “secure” attachment between mother and child, father and child, or mother or father figure and child? We are Double X Science, here to bring you evidence-based information, and that means lists. The be…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on May 16, 2012

• Good Deeds, Good Science: Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund

  Heroes filed for a 501(c)(3), giving this charity an official stamp.   According to Jeremy Shatan, the acting Executive Director of Hope & Heroes, the clinic sees about 100-150 new patients each year and about 5,000 – 7,000 total patient visits.  This number includes patients who are currently receiving treatment as well as those who have recovered but are still being monitored. The money donated to Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer Fu…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on April 25, 2012

• How chili powder can kill

  dead about 1 h after the inhalation of the pepper.  [Homicidal asphyxia by pepper aspiration by S.D. Cohle] Like black pepper, hot peppers and their products have been used as punishments. Three children, aged 3, 5, and 7, were repeatedly disciplined over a period of months in the following manner. A split jalapeno pepper was placed in the child’s mouth and a timer set for 15-20 minutes. If the child spit the pepper out, swallowed it, or vo…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on January 21, 2013

• Vaccine fears: What can you do?

  …inate. Indeed, these threats to public health have grown considerably with recent large outbreaks of measles and pertussis, including a growing measles outbreak in Europe involving more than 26,000 cases of measles, more than 7000 hospitalizations, and nine deaths as of this writing. The growing threat has led to calls for more stringent requirements for childhood vaccines, including dropping exemptions and requiring that all children be vaccinat…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on December 4, 2011

• To Cut or Not to Cut…Cirumcision Decision

  …adenoids for treatment. The tonsils and adenoids (lumps of issue behind the nose) generally cause the blockage that interferes with a child’s breathing while asleep, so removing them can usually cure the sleep apnea (in 75 to 100 percent of the cases). There are risks to adenotonsillectomy, namely infection and excessive bleeding. There are risks to sleep apnea, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes, depression and death. For a child…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on September 14, 2012

• YES. The CDC childhood immunization schedule is safe. For reals.

  …s—that is, inactivated or dead viruses and bacteria, or altered bacterial toxins that cause disease and infection—in vaccines.” Antigens are what usually cause most adverse reactions, and they’ve dropped from over 3,000 in 1980 to fewer than 130 in 2000. Still, parents have worried about the additives in vaccines, such as aluminum (an “adjuvant” used to enhance the immune response) and thimerosal (a preservative now only f…

  Authored by Tara Haelle on January 24, 2013

• HIV+ doesn’t mean you can’t have children

  …al to live healthy lives for decades on proven antiretroviral drugs. In fact, a December 2012 CDC Fact Sheet states that the number of women with HIV giving birth in the United States increased approximately 30% from 6,000 to 7,000 in 2000 to 8700 in 2006. During that same time frame, the estimated number of perinatal infections per year in all 50 states and 5 dependent areas continued to decline. It’s not all good news, though, because of marked…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on March 11, 2013

• Anorexia nervosa, neurobiology, and family-based treatment

  period. These results were a clear illustration of just how profound the effects of months of starvation were on the body and mind. Alas, Keys’ findings were pretty much ignored by the field of eating-disorders treatment for 40-some years, until new technologies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and research gave new context to his work. We now know there is no single root cause for eating disorders. They’re what researchers call…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on August 10, 2012

• The fear factor in vaccination decisions

  How does fear influence vaccination decisions? by Tara Haelle         Part one on the impact of social networks on parents’ vaccination decisions explored how the way people moralize vaccination might play a part in how receptive they are to data about vaccines. But moral undertones only partly explain the phenomenon seen with Twitter and in Emily Brunson’s study, however. There is also the fear factor. “We are hard-wired for fear,&#…

  Authored by Tara Haelle on April 25, 2013

• Plan B now available to younger teens

  The age group that needs it most. by Emily Willingham      In December of 2011, Kathleen Sebelius, the Obama Administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, shocked the reproductive health community by blocking a bid to make Plan B, or “morning after” contraception, available over the counter (OTC) to teens under age 17. The much-anticipated OTC availability of this intervention to this age group had already received FDA…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on April 5, 2013