What is Still’s disease? It is a disorder featuring inflammation, high fever, salmon colored rash and / or arthritis. The disease was first described in children but now even seen in adults. Mentioned here are the causes, symptoms and treatment.
What is Ketogenic Diet? It is a high-fat, adequate protein, low carbohydrate diet used to treat refractory epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates
Join Miranda Sawyer and studio guest Jay Rayner, Observer food critic, gourmand and father of two, for the first edition of The Family Podcast from the Guardian. Follow Miranda as she noses around the house …
Sarah Boseley charts the downfall of the consultant whose report led to a drop in MMR uptake and divided medical opinion• Datablog: what’s happened to MMR vaccinations – and how do we compare to the rest of the world?• MMR doctor ‘failed to act in interests of children’It all began with a paper published in [...]
General Medical Council finds Andrew Wakefield, who linked MMR with autism, failed in duties as responsible consultant• Datablog: what’s happened to MMR vaccinations – and how do we compare to the rest of the world?• From the Lancet to the GMC: How Andrew Wakefield fell from graceDr Andrew Wakefield, the expert at the centre of [...]
Furry electronic pets that sent parents scurrying to online auctions on show at annual Toy Fair in LondonParents who think they have sated their children’s craze for small electronic animals have a shock coming. The hamsters are back – and they have been breeding.Go Go Hamsters, which overcame a US safety scare story to become [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In surprising testimony, a witness called to defend California’s gay marriage ban testified on Tuesday that legalizing same-sex matrimony would “improve the well-being of gay and lesbian households and their children.”
The Land of the Free is also the world’s fattest country, but at least America’s First Lady has decided to make modern life’s greatest curse her top priorityAmerica has a new figurehead in its struggle against childhood obesity – Michelle Obama. Last week, the First Lady told mayors from around the US how the recent growth [...]
What is it really like to be ambidextrous? The ambidextrous mother of two children who also have the ability to use both hands equally relates her experienceHarry Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Baden-Powell, Benjamin Franklin and Johnny Wilkinson were (or are) all ambidextrous, defined as being able to use both hands with equal facility. But [...]
Stopping children eating junk food is surely a better way to tackle the problem of Britain’s overweight populationThere is still time to sign up for one of the most rational dates of 2010: next week’s mass homeopathy overdose. At 10.23am on Saturday 30 January, anti-homeopathy activists, organised by the Merseyside Skeptics Society, will down entire [...]