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  • Are children today really suffering nature deficit disorder (TM)?

    …on, became a genuine threat to health. While they certainly didn’t have television to keep them indoors, they also didn’t have child labor laws. The result was that children who once might have been at work at age 4 in a field were now at work at age 3 or 4 in a factory, putting in 12 or so hours a day before stepping out into the coal-smoked, animal-dung-scented air of the city.  Child labor wasn’t something confined to Indust…

    Authored by on April 30, 2012

  • Pertussis: Get the vax or at least listen to why you should

    …e biggest pertussis outbreak since 1959. Not surprisingly, the majority of the states leading in pertussis cases are also among those that offer personal belief exemptions. Washington, despite their new law, is sitting at 4,190 cases, quadrupling their 2011 count of 965. This is the state where 7.6 percent of parents opted for exemptions (among all grade levels, not just kindergarten) in 2008-09, more than four times the national rate of abou…

    Authored by on October 10, 2012

  • Sizing up the mother in me

    …childless,” meaning they are physically able to bear children but expect to have none. And there’s a social cost to this decision as a decreasing but sizeable portion of Americans disapproves of that choice. In a 2002 survey, 40 percent said people without children “lead empty lives.” If you ask me, there’s nothing empty about seizing a freedom that was largely inaccessible to women throughout most of the history of our species. Still, I’ve learn…

    Authored by on June 5, 2013

  • Why a UN ban on thimerosal in vaccines would be a big mistake

    …ry in thimerosal. As Dr. Walter Orenstein  today’s AAP articles, “Had the evidence that is available now been available in 1999, the policy reducing thimerosal use would likely have not been implemented. Furthermore, in 2008 the World Health Organization endorsed the use of thimerosal in vaccines.” But apparently, the WHO’s endorsement can’t overcome thimerosal’s PR image problem in the eyes of the UN. And so the UN is short-sightedly and d…

    Authored by on December 18, 2012

  • Women know something you don’t

    Make no mistake about it. by Emily Willingham Three of my four grandparents were only children. Born early in the 20th century, in the period betwixt the great wars, coming of age in the Great Depression. Only children, in spite of having parents married for decades. Three of them. In all likelihood, their own parents, my great-grandparents–and I knew all of my great-grandmothers–consciously chose not to have more children because,…

    Authored by on March 26, 2013

  • Hormonal birth control explainer: a matter of health

    …ing hormone (blue line), also from the brain, occurs simultaneously. These two hormones along with the estradiol peak result in the follicle expelling the egg from the ovary into the Fallopian tube, or oviduct (Figure 3, step 4). That’s ovulation. Fun fact : Right when the estrogen spikes, a woman’s body temperature will typically drop a bit (see “Basal body temperature” in the figure), so many women have used temperature monitoring to know that…

    Authored by on March 5, 2012

  • Sesame Street helps unlock the secrets to the brain during children’s learning

    …ame as what’s seen in the brain while a person builds a treehouse? In this study, the researchers found a partial answer to exactly that kind of question, and the answer is no. The children in study, ranging in age from 4 to 11 and all typically developing, watched the same 20-minute montage of short clips with Big Bird, Cookie Monster, the Count, Oscar and the rest of the gang teaching numbers and letters, shapes and colors, planets and co…

    Authored by on January 4, 2013

  • Vaccine fears: What can you do?

    …st those who promote vaccines for public health are not unknown. The fact that the vast majority of parents overcame those fears and had their children vaccinated has led to some of the greatest public health successes of the 20th century. Thanks to the willingness of people to participate in vaccination programs, smallpox disappeared and polio became a thing of the past in much of the world. Indeed, people in those eras knew, often from personal…

    Authored by on December 4, 2011

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

    …wborn child In the United States, breastfeeding is discouraged because HIV can be transmitted in breast milk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the risk for HIV transmission goes up as much as 45%. However, the topic of breastfeeding remains controversial. In healthy women with no HIV history, the broad consensus is that breastfeeding is best, giving babies excellent nutrition and helping the infant bond with mom….

    Authored by on March 11, 2013

  • About that 1 in 50 autism number

    r 63,967 children; for 2011-2012, that number was slightly higher at 65,556. From 2007 to 2013, parent-reported autism prevalence increased significantly in all age groups in the 6-17 range and increased for boys from 1.8% to 3.23%. Girls also showed an increase, but not as dramatic, from 0.49% to 0.70%. Autism among children ages 14 to 17 was up more than 1%, compared to children in the youngest, 6 to 9 age group (0.5%). In 2007, this older grou…

    Authored by on April 29, 2013

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