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For decades, adults and teenagers have been wearing contact lenses to improve their vision. Most children or pre-teens have to rely on eyeglasses to help them see better, until they are able to handle contact lenses. Although a person eventually becomes accustomed to wearing them, the fact remains t...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/16 Clicks: 0 |
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In addition to Alcan Packaging’s injection-molded, single-piece closure, they have also developed a Slide-and-Tear closure. It is a cross between a standard unit-dose blister card with paperboard and a combination of various structural systems. This closure is practically un-tearable but can be ope...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/16 Clicks: 1 |
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When the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) revised its protocol requiring that drug packages be senior friendly as well as child resistant, package designers were faced with a challenge. Since children between the ages of 18 to 24 months are most likely to ingest poisons, the Poison Preventi...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/16 Clicks: 0 |
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More than half of the drugs approved every year that are likely to be prescribed to children are not adequately tested for use in children. Vaccines and antibiotics are notably marketed with information for pediatric use, however many drugs, such as those for treating depression, epilepsy, severe pa...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/16 Clicks: 0 |
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It is never easy to run the fine balance between great taste, good health and visual appeal, more so if the customer is a child. Adults can be told about health benefits of certain foods, but a horde of hungry kids will not listen to this voice of wisdom. For them, health, calories, fiber and nutrit...
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Malaria, already responsible for at least a fifth of all deaths of children under five in Africa, will continue to increase its hold on the continent unless Britain and the US provide more effective, but more expensive, medicines, it was claimed yesterday. Médecins sans Frontières, whose volunteer...
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On a recent shopping trip to Marshalls, Colleen Weston decided to skip the parenting advice about teaching kids life lessons at every opportunity. Instead of explaining to her son why he couldn’t have a toy that day, which surely would have triggered a tantrum, she took the easy way out: She lied.
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| pubdate: 2008/07/15 Clicks: 7 |
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British children's brain development is being threatened by their failure to work with their hands in school and at home, said a report released on Monday.
With woodwork, metalwork, craft, music or car mechanic classes dropped by many schools and children wanting to play computer games at home, the ...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/15 Clicks: 1 |
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The case of 14 babies who received accidental overdoses while in intensive care has raised new questions about how a common blood-thinning medication could be given to infants repeatedly in the wrong dosage.
Unlike a previous case involving twins of actor Dennis Quaid, the ...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/12 Clicks: 4 |
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More than 40 years ago, my mother and one of her best friends struck an unconventional deal: They would share me.
My mom, Beth Dahlstrom, met Isabel Peterson when they were both nurses at a Southern ...
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| pubdate: 2008/07/11 Clicks: 5 |
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