the honest scoop – 02-28-10
This week’s top news headlines for parents
The Sunday Best Edition – honestbaby is putting on its Sunday best today and presenting our most interesting and important news stories of the past week…
Pfizer won approval from the FDA for its Prevnar 13 vaccine that protects children against bacterial infections such as pneumonia and meningitis.
As one Philly school finds itself under investigation by the FBI, video surfaces of another school administrator bragging about using webcams to spy on students and even demonstrating how he does it.
Umbilical cord blood may help “repair” damage from low oxygen at birth:
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In a breakthrough first, a young woman who had undergone an ovary transplant successfully gave birth to her second child conceived after the procedure.
An OB/GYN says “we need to stop circumcision“.
Your baby’s naptime not only gives you a chance to recover, it helps your child remember the new things they’ve just learned.
Concerned but demanding parents are leading pediatricians to over-prescribe antibiotics.
Challenge your child’s doctor:
With obese women seeming to have a higher risk of having babies with birth defects, focus turns toward diabetes as the most likely cause for this link.
With more than 75 children dying and more than 10,000 heading to the ER each year after choking on food, pediatricians call for warning labels and even a redesign of the hot dog.
Medical researchers move forward with their potential cure for peanut allergies in their biggest test yet.
Don’t worry about the foul smell coming from that box of Girl Scout cookies, they’re still safe to eat (as if anyone is actually going to try them now).
Do kids even know what vegetables are anymore?
To make up for budget shortfalls, Georgia schools resort to 4-day school weeks.
A Nevada elementary school tests out an all-day kindergarten schedule.
Does your child’s school use solitary confinement as a disciplinary action for misbehaving students?
Video games make math fun.
Mystery writer John Connolly opens up The Gates, his first novel for children.
Best-selling author John Grishman takes on the children’s book market with his new series Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer.
The Middle Place author Kelly Corrigan (and her kids) on her new book, Lift:
It’s bring your baby to work day on The Office.
Giuliana and Bill Rancic open up about their struggle with in vitro fertilization.
Octomom Nadya Suleman proposes the possibility of having a fifteenth child.
Making good on her daughter’s hope for a sibling, Army Wives star Catherine Bell has her second baby on the way.
Congratulations to Padma Lakshmi who welcomed her baby girl, Krishna, this weekend.
Parenthood premieres on NBC on Tuesday, May 2nd:
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