Bowing to negative headlines and pressure from lawmakers, the USDA will soon give school districts the choice of opting out of "pink slime," a blend of beef scraps treated with amonia hydroxide intended to kill bacteria.
The nation’s automotive safety agency has a new crash test dummy that will be used to evaluate the growing number of child safety seats and boosters made for children weighing more than 65 pounds.
While most parents with small children use booster seats, nearly a third of them do not enforce this rule when their child is riding with another driving, such as when carpooling.
A consumer advocacy organization and a Republican representative are at odds over proposed child labor rules discussed at a hearing yesterday in the House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade.
Are you struggling to find ways to manage the weight of an obese child? You have have to change your own behavior in order to do so, according to a new scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Parents reminded to keep meds “Up and Away and Out of Sight”
January 2, 2012
Each year, one of every 150 two–year–olds visits an emergency department in the United States for an unintentional medication overdose, most often after finding and eating or drinking medicines without adult supervision.
An international team of researchers has found a 25% mortality rate among children in Nigerian villages where their parents process gold ore in the family home.