Illness, Injury & Treatments

Magazine articles on illnesses, injuries, currently available treatments, drugs, and homeopathy.

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The Family Room	Treating Kids' Allergies Adults with allergies sometimes tough it out, if they know their allergy season is limited or if they feel they can handle the sniffles and runny eyes. But you can't take that same attitude with a child....
Nutrition Action Healthletter May 2000	Magic Bullets Under Siege ...Antibiotics---drugs that kill bacteria---account for much of our success in the war against infectious illness. But the miracle drugs of medicine are in danger...
Managed Care April 2000 Tim Olsen	Physician, Tarnish Not Thine Image Doctors who use the news media to criticize others, rather than initiate a constructive dialog about difficult issues such as antibiotic resistance, help erode the profession's influence.
Managed Care April 2000	NCQA To Put Report Cards On the Web The National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes to elevate the degree to which quality of care factors into people's choice of health plans. NCQA is placing health plan report cards on its web site...
Managed Care April 2000	What Drugs Are Covered? Safety, Efficacy Matter Safety and medical effectiveness most determine whether a health plan will cover a new drug, according to a study in the March/April Health Affairs. Researchers polled chief medical officers or pharmacy managers at 53 plans....
The Family Room Ann Douglas	Sick Kids and Daycare: When to Send Them to Daycare and When to Keep Them Home Symptoms, transmission, infectious period, etc. for: chickenpox, common cold, pink eye, ear infection, fever, gastroenteritis, impetigo, red measles, head lice, whopping cough, rubella, scarlet fever, and strep throat.
The Family Room David the Dogman	Dog and Cat Allergies
Nutrition Action Healthletter March 2000	Diet & Behavior in Children While stimulant drugs can help keep a child's hyperactivity under control, they can also have side effects like reduced appetite, weight loss, stomachaches, insomnia...or worse.
Science News February 26, 2000 Janet Raloff	Sickening Food Attempting to quantify the number of food poisoning cases.
Science News February 26, 2000	Surgery Guide Web site on surgical procedures.
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