Choosing child care for your children can be a challenging and somewhat daunting task, but it can be made easier by following helpful guidelines provided by the state agency that regulates child care providers.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) helps keep Kentucky’s children safe by performing inspections and investigations [...]
Choosing child care for your children can be a challenging and somewhat daunting task, but it can be made easier by following helpful guidelines provided by the state agency that regulates child care providers.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) helps keep Kentucky’s children safe by performing inspections and investigations [...]
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is releasing a set of tools and resources to help parents and teachers educate children about emergencies and how they can help their families better prepare. These materials are part of the department’s Ready in 3 emergency preparedness program. The Ready in 3 initiative reminds Missourians what [...]
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome [SIDS] is a condition that unexpectedly and unexplainably takes the lives of seemingly healthy babies aged between a month and a year. Now researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, have developed a mouse model of the so-called crib or cot death, which remains the leading cause of [...]
Educating kids and their parents about the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bike, and buckling up and riding in the back seat of the car, could help to cut down the more than 30 million injury-related emergency room visits that occur each year in the United States.
And one of the best places [...]
As temperatures heat up, children are at serious risk for heat stroke when left alone even for a few minutes in a closed vehicle. Approximately 365 children across the United States have died from heatstroke caused by being left or trapped in a vehicle over the past decade.
Heat is much more dangerous to children than [...]
Drowning is the number two cause of accidental death for children ages 14 and under. For children ages five and under, close to 350 drown in residential swimming pools each year, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Overall, approximately 810 children have died each year from 2001 to 2005 due to accidental drownings, [...]
With the start of a new school year only a month away, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) wants to remind parents to do their homework and immunize their children against childhood diseases.
“Vaccinations protect children of all ages against deadly diseases. We thank all Mississippi parents who take the initiative to protect their children [...]
A statewide health organization is asking for public input on newly revised guidelines to help schools provide healthier foods to students in Missouri. The goal of the guidelines is to improve student health and prevent childhood obesity.
The Missouri Eat Smart Guidelines are voluntary nutrition guidelines for all food available on school campuses for students in [...]
Statement by Dr. Richard Davis, Chief Medical Officer, CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
Update on Heparin Matter, July 9, 2008, 11:15 a.m.
Corpus Christi, Texas (July 9, 2008) – The attending neonatologist states that at this point, there are no identifiable adverse affects directly caused by Heparin. Thirteen of the infants remain in our NICU for reasons [...]