Medicines supplied without child-resistant caps – multiple brands
Return affected products to your pharmacy
Some medicines can be toxic to children and are required to be supplied in child-resistant packaging. When these medicines are supplied in bottles, they must have a child-resistant closure...
Safety Advisory About Not Feeding Peanuts to Infants and Young Children at Risk for...
Paediatric specialists and surgeons are concerned with parents getting the wrong message regarding the safety/desirability of letting babies and young children eat peanuts to prevent them from developing peanut allergies. Last week’s news coverage...
Study Shows Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy (FB-IPT) for Depressed Preadolescents is More Effective than...
A recent study published in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy (FB-IPT) is more effective in treating preadolescent...
Study: High stress for mothers increases secondhand smoke risk for infants
New mothers who experience higher levels of social stressors are the least likely to have rules that ban smoking in the home, which could expose their infants to secondhand smoke and increase health risks,...
Divorce fuels sugary beverage consumption
Children of recently separated or divorced families are likelier to drink sugar-sweetened beverages than children in families where the parents are married, putting them at higher risk for obesity later in life, according to...
Getting to the point of parenting
Why do people really have kids?
While most parents might think they know the answer, research suggests this age-old question, in fact, remains mostly unanswered.
In response, and as ABS statistics indicate the number of children born in...
Rising rates of conflict hurting kids
New research shows more than one-in-three families are affected by regular inter-parental conflict and children are bearing the brunt.
The findings taken from the Longitudinal Study of Children, focussed on children aged 0-11 across a...
I-DECIDE: Women urged to seek online domestic violence support
Female participants aged between 16 and 50 are being asked to try I-DECIDE, the first Australian online interactive tool designed to provide practical and confidential support to victims of domestic violence.
The website has been...
Daytime naps linked to poorer night-time sleep in young children
Children who have daytime naps beyond the age of two may be poorer sleepers at night, QUT researchers have found.
The study, led by Professor Karen Thorpe from QUT's Faculty of Health and Institute of...
Stress cost of a new baby = $85,000
Research from the University of Melbourne has put a dollar figure of $85,000 on the time pressure and stress experienced by mothers in the first year of a baby’s life.
This research, undertaken by the...
