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  • Sports Drinks and Energy Drinks for Children and Adolescents: Are they appropriate?
02.21.2012

Johnson & Johnson on Friday recalled an estimated 547,000 bottles of infants' Tylenol following complaints from parents about its new bottle cap and dose syringe. The company's McNeil Consumer Healthcare division said that the drug was safe and that there were no reports of adverse effects. The Wall Street Journal (2/17), ABC News/The Associated Press (2/17)

02.14.2012

Most of my patient's parents believe that multi-language exposure slows down the speech progress in kids. Studies showed completely opposite results.
A Toronto study in the journal Child Development of 104 6-year-olds showed that bilingual children had a deeper understanding of language structure and increased levels of executive control compared with monolingual children. CBC.ca (Canada).The bilingual groups exceeded their monolingual peers in attention spam. Researchers showed bilingualism may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

02.07.2012

Children born to fathers older than 40 had a 37% to 55% higher risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder than those born to fathers younger than 35, a Danish study found. Researchers noted that children born to mothers older than 40 had a 28% to 65% higher risk of autism compared with those born to mothers younger than 35. The findings appear in the journal Annals of Epidemiology. Reuters

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