Imperative Tips For Parents — Measuring Your Child’s Medicine

Imperative Tips For Parents — Measuring Your Child’s Medicine

When it comes to giving your children medicine, measuring correctly is crucial. Children’s liquid medicines should only be measured in metric units to avoid overdoses common with teaspoons and tablespoons, U.S. pediatricians say. Tens of thousands of kids wind up in emergency rooms after unintentional medicine overdoses each year, and the cause is often badly…

Breast-Feeding Boost: Fewer Hospitals Handing Out Free Formula

Breast-Feeding Boost: Fewer Hospitals Handing Out Free Formula

Fewer U.S. hospitals send new mothers home with free infant formula, but the overwhelming majority still engage in the practice, to the dismay of breast-feeding proponents, a new survey finds. To determine if the number of hospitals distributing industry-provided formula had changed since her 2007 survey, Anne Merewood of Boston University School of Medicine followed…