by: Melissa Clark Vickers

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every day 374 children ages 0 to 19 years are treated in the emergency room for poisoning—and two will die. In 2004, more than 71,000 children were seen in the ER for medication-related poisoning, and 80 percent of those happened when an unsupervised child found—and consumed—medicines.

Learning how to protect your children from these largely preventable poisoning deaths and injuries, and knowing what to do if your child is exposed to a poison can mean the difference between life and death.

Find out tips to prevent poisoning and also what to do if you think your child has been poisoned.  http://bit.ly/poisonprevent

“In an effort to curtail the rising rate of obesity, a pilot program… will be giving a trial group of overweight pregnant women daily doses of a common diabetes drug.”

“They call it early intervention. Sounds, to me, a lot like a diet pill for unborn babies.”

Read more: http://bit.ly/dietpill4babies