Well: New Tactics for Battling Head Lice
The American Academy of Pediatrics has updated its advice to doctors on how best to treat children and families affected by head lice. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - June 1, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: JANE E. BRODY Tags: Family Personal Health Hair Lice Shampoos and Hair Products Parenting Featured Children and Childhood Source Type: news
Minor ailment scheme doesn't provide free Calpol for all
"Thousands discover Calpol has been free on NHS 'for years' as mum's Facebook post goes viral," the Daily Mirror reports.
This and other similar headlines were prompted by a post made on the social networking site Facebook. In the post, it was claimed that all medicines for children were available for free on the NHS as part of the minor ailment scheme.
"I was in Boots yesterday buying Calpol and happened to complain to the cashier how expensive it is. She told me, to my amazement, that if you register your details with them under the minor ailments scheme that all medicines for children are free – a ...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Medical practice QA articles Source Type: news
For spider monkeys, social grooming comes with a cost
Social grooming, or helping others to stay clean and free of lice and other ecto-parasites, has long been associated with hygiene and good health in wild primates. In the process of picking out ecto-parasites, however, the groomers may be picking up internal ones, a new study finds. The results of the study on critically endangered brown spider monkeys show that physical contact is associated with the spread of several common gastrointestinal parasites. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 19, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Fire disaster caused by LPG tanker explosion at Lice in Diyarbakır (Turkey): July 21, 2014 - Zengin Y, Dursun R, Içer M, Gündüz E, Durgun HM, Erbatur S, Damar Ö, Guloglu C.
A disaster can be defined as a situation where the affected society cannot overcome its own resources. Our aim was to present the case of a fire disaster caused by a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker-based explosion on the Diyarbakır-Bingöl road in Li... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Lousy sockeye are lousy competitors
A key discovery has been made regarding Fraser River sockeye's vulnerability to sea lice. Their recently published research indicates that juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon that are highly infected with sea lice are 20 percent less successful at consuming food than their lightly infected counterparts. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 1, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
