April 26, 2019 Addiction Providing a safe prescribed and monitored source of opioids can help reduce the risk of drug overdoses by reducing the need to seek street-available drugs. It has the potential to add some normalcy into a life.
April 25, 2019 Health Headlines WHO screen time recommendations are out emphasizing restrictions of 1 hour per day for children under five and zero hours for infants under 12 months of age.
April 23, 2019 Junk Science Reconsider this speaker’s location when you want to play music to your unborn child. A lullaby to pseudoscience.
April 22, 2019 Addiction Smoking cessation requires a multi-pronged approach including the use of adequate nicotine replacement.
April 18, 2019 Health Headlines Study cannot show that children exposed to more than two hours of screen time are more likely to exhibit ADHD symptoms. This one had self-reporting bias and did not have the power to show causality.
April 17, 2019 Bariatric Medicine Tobacco soon to be shoved off its perch as the number one cause of preventable cancers by increasing obesity rates
April 16, 2019 Bioengineering Proof-of-concept succeeds in producing functional 3D-printed heart tissue and anatomical architecture but clinical application requires many trials in animal models before considering human ones.
April 15, 2019 Health Policy If truly happening, ‘measles parties’ designed to purposefully infect children with a potentially fatal disease is the epitome of ignorance and can be considered a form of child abuse.
April 12, 2019 General information Add hospital privacy curtains to the list of under-recognized sources of bacterial contamination
April 11, 2019 Depression There is no one encompassing reason why more children and teens think about suicide according to study
