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• Wrapping paper safety

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  While enjoying the gift-giving, keep your baby safe this holiday season with these easy tips: Throw away wrapping paper. After opening gifts, toss all wrapping paper, strings, ribbon, and bows. A toddler can easily put a ribbon around her neck, a plastic bag over her head, or paper in her mouth while you are ...
  6 days ago

• Recall: Ikea Leopard high chairs due to fall and choking hazards

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Ikea Home Furnishings, yesterday announced a voluntary recall of about 600 Ikea Leopard high chairs . The snap locks used to secure the seat to the frame can break and allow the seat and child to drop through the frame, posing a fall hazard to young ...
  1 week ago

• Infant car seat installation: Ride with your newborn to check the angle

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  When it comes to premature or low birth-weight babies , it’s common for hospitals and parents to evaluate a newborn baby’s car seat recline position to ensure that it’s not compromising the child’s breathing function. But full-term newborns may not be evaluated as closely. For babies who don’t have enough ...
  1 week ago

• Child safety news roundup: Booster seats, Simplicity crib recall, more

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  Not all boosters provide good belt fit. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released their list of the best booster seats. The IIHS ratings are based solely on how well each booster seat positions the lap and shoulder belt, its primary function, and are not an assessment of crash performance or ...
  1 week ago

• Recall: 447,000 Safety 1st, Cosco, Eddie Bauer, Disney infant car seats

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  More than 447,000 infant car seat carriers have been recalled by the Dorel Juvenile Group because the handle to the carrier seat can break loose. The company has received 77 reports of the handle fully or partially coming off the car seat/carrier resulting in at least three injuries to infants including bumps, ...
  1 week ago

• Child safety at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  If you’ll be visiting the grandparents’ house (or anyone’s home)—especially on a routine basis, for an extended period of time, or if you’re going to leave your child in someones care for a night out—here are some safety strategies to consider: Ask grandparents to remove potentially dangerous items from ...
  1 week ago

• MarketsandMarkets Publishes US Preterm Infant Care Market Report

  
  Your Story — Authority: 544
  The U.S Preterm Infant Care Market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.
  1 week ago

• How to buy safe toys for babies and children

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  Toys are safer than ever before, thanks to tough new laws that help protect children from lead and phthalates, a potentially dangerous chemical found in some plastics. Both chemicals can be toxic if a child happens to ingest them, and since kids often chew on toys, it can happen. Last year Congress passed the ...
  1 week ago

• Holiday child safety: Lights and candles

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  Holidays are joyful celebrations, but following certain safety precautions can keep your child safe, particularly when it comes to holiday lights and candles. Don’t let your child touch holiday lights. In many cases, electrical cords contain lead, which can rub off on your hands and therefore shouldn’t be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Neurology of the Newborn [Book and Media Reviews]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 447
  
  2 weeks ago

• Carrier Screening, Incidence of Cystic Fibrosis, and Difficult Decisions [Editorial]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 447
  
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• Association Between Carrier Screening and Incidence of Cystic Fibrosis [Original Contribution]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 447
  Context  A downward trend in cystic fibrosis (CF) birth incidence has been reported in some areas. Objective  To evaluate the association between carrier screening and CF birth incidence. Design, Setting, and Participants  In northeastern Italy, CF birth incidence is monitored by means of a long-standing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recall: All Roman shades and roll-up blinds

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Window Covering Safety Council have announced today a voluntary recall of all Roman shades and roll-up blinds due to the strangulation risk they present to young children. Since 2006, there have been reports of five deaths and 16 near-strangulations due to Roman ...
  2 weeks ago

• Analyst Briefing on the U.S. Preterm Infant Care Market to be held on 14th Dec 2009 by MarketsandMarkets

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 154
  Wilmington, Del- The Healthcare practice at MarketsandMarkets is pleased to announce its Analyst Briefing Presentation on the U.S. Preterm Infant Care Market to be held on 14th December, 2009.Preterm infant care products provide medical support to preterm babies through drugs, infant formulae, and therapy/monitoring ...
  2 weeks ago

• MarketsandMarkets: U.S Preterm Infant Care Continues To Be A Multi-Billion Dollar Market

  
  Your Story — Authority: 544
  The U.S Preterm Infant Care Market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.
  2 weeks ago

• Insecticides and birth defects in boys

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  New research from England suggests that there’s something else to be careful about during pregnancy: insect repellents and insecticides. Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip. (Surgery can correct ...
  2 weeks ago

• Child product safety news: Maclaren recall and stroller design, more

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  The recent recall of some one million Maclaren umbrella strollers in the U.S. due to a dozen amputations of children’s fingertips garnered international media attention. We pulled 10 recently tested umbrella strollers out of our warehouse for inspection. But the Maclaren wasn’t the only manufacturer to use ...
  3 weeks ago

• Recall: Evenflo exersaucer 1-2-3 Tea for Me Activity Learning Centers

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  Evenflo has recalled 80,000 "exersaucers" in the U.S. and Canada because a piece of the activity centers cake-shaped toy can break off and pose a choking hazard. The company has received 11 reports of the toy flames detaching but no reports of injuries. (Learn more about activity centers .) The recall involves the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Statewide Newborn Screening for Severe T-Cell Lymphopenia [Original Contribution]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 447
  Context  A newborn blood screening (NBS) test that could identify infants with a profound deficiency of T cells may result in a reduction in mortality. Objective  To determine if quantitating T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction on DNA extracted from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Recall: 24,000 Amby Baby hammocks

  
  Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products — Authority: 128
  Amby Baby has recalled 24,000 "motion" hammocks after a 4-month-old girl in Lawrenceville, Ga. died in a baby hammock and a 5-month-old boy from Gresham, Ore. suffocated. When the hammock shifts or tilts from side to side, an infant can roll and become entrapped or wedged against the hammock’s fabric and/or ...
  3 weeks ago

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