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When you need relief from that cold or cough, do you use a spoon to measure the quantity? If you do, you're like millions of people - and like them, you're probably taking the wrong dose...
...formulation of a drug for infants can differ from that for an older child: the infant's version can actually be stronger since it is often administered in tiny amounts with a medicine dropper. "We've done studies here that show that 50% of the time, parents give the wrong dose" to a child, says Dr. Benard Dreyer, a professor of pediatrics at New York University. "We recommend parents don't use spoons...
This highly nuanced sense of history, Elisabeth said, also permitted her father a nuanced grasp of politics: "While he had a very strong sense of right and wrong," she said, "nothing was black and white...
...this explains why the scientific community is so nervously excited about epigenetics. In his forthcoming book The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ Is Wrong, science writer David Shenk says epigenetics is helping usher in a "new paradigm" that "reveals how bankrupt the phrase 'nature versus nurture' really is." He calls epigenetics "perhaps the most important discovery in the science of heredity since the gene." (See the top 10 nonfiction books...
What happened next is not entirely clear. Slovakian authorities say they immediately contacted their counterparts at Dublin Airport to explain the situation, but the Dublin Airport Authority says it did not hear from the Slovakians until Tuesday morning. (According to the Irish media, a telex went to the wrong number.) Slovakian officials described the oversight as a "silly and unprofessional mistake" and apologized to the Irish. But in a statement from the Slovakian Interior Ministry, the government took exception to the arrest of the passenger: "[For an] incomprehensible reason, [the police] took the person into custody and undertook further security...