Risky Asthma Drugs

Posted on December 7, 2008. Filed under: Asthma, Children's Health, Drugs | Tags: , , , , , , , |

FDA officials warn about four asthma drugs, including advair and symbicort… can they increase risk of death?

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TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say

Posted on November 23, 2008. Filed under: Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, Society, health, medicine | Tags: , , , , , , , |

By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: November 20, 2008
Banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the U.S. by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a new study.
The researchers used several statistical models to link obesity rates to the [...]

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Parents Buy Their Teenage Girls Breast Augmentation Surgery as Birthday Presents

Posted on October 20, 2008. Filed under: Society, health | Tags: , , , , |

(NaturalNews) It is becoming increasingly common for parents to give their teenage daughters breast augmentation surgery as a birthday or graduation present, says Stephen Greenberg, a plastic surgeon from Woodbury, New York.
“There are girls and women who are devastated by the fact that they don’t have breasts and their friends do,” Greenberg said. “They don’t [...]

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RFK on the “Vaccine Autism Coverup”

Posted on October 17, 2008. Filed under: Children's Health, Drugs, Society, Survival, Wellness, medicine, vaccines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Become informed- talk to your doctor about  vaccinations and your children… I do not recommend anyone avoid vaccinations- simply make informed choices.  Evidence shows that vaccinations have great public health benefits but some children may be sensitive to added preservatives put in the vaccines. Fortunately, these preservatives are not required for the vaccine to work.
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Use of statins in children is debated

Posted on July 10, 2008. Filed under: Children's Health, Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, Society, Survival, Wellness, health, medicine | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

A recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics that those as young as 8 be aggressively treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs is creating controversy.
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 9, 2008
A recommendation from an influential doctors group that some children as young as 8 be aggressively treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs has triggered debate over [...]

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