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ROSEBUD SAFETY TIPS For many kids, the best part of winter is a good sled ride down a snowy slope. To keep the thrill safe, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is urging parents to supervise the fun--and to put helmets on children under 12. Each year about 7...
MEMORY CHECK The Alzheimer's Association is urging families to take advantage of holiday reunions to assess elderly relatives for that most delicate of problems: memory loss. An association poll reveals, however, that 1 in 2 persons incorrectly believes normal forgetfulness could be Alzheimer's. To provide some better guidance...
GET IN THE BACK Where should kids under 13 be seated in the car? The government strongly recommends the backseat, especially if there is a front-passenger air bag. Yet a New England study in December's Pediatrics journal shows that kids are being ferried in the front seat in...
The AIDS drug cocktail may have just got better. Replacing protease inhibitors--the medication that first lifted the death sentence for thousands of aids patients--with a new drug, Sustiva, seems to reduce HIV to undetectable levels in 50% more patients. Sustiva benefits kids too. When added to cocktails that...
What's better for a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder--behavior therapy or medications like Ritalin? The answer is, well, complicated. A new report shows medication alone or combined with therapy is decidedly more effective than therapy alone in reducing overt symptoms of adhd--the off-the-wall jumpiness...