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Baby Dressers Recalled Following the Deaths of Three Toddlers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued recalls for two types of children’s dressers following the deaths of three toddlers possibly resulting from the furniture tipping over onto them. The concern in both cases is that children will open the dresser drawers to scale the furniture, causing it to become unbalanced and fall over, possibly trapping the child.
4 Million Baby Seats Recalled Due to Major Safety Hazard
Approximately 4 million Bumbo Baby Seats have been recalled because they present a falling risk to infants when they are placed on raised surfaces, which can result in injuries as severe as skull fractures, according to the CPSC.
How to Protect Your Family from the Swine Flu
Swine flu, a strain of the virus that commonly infects pigs, passed to people in 2009. That strain, now known as 2009H1N1, caused a global pandemic throughout 2009. The pandemic expired in August of 2010; however, because the virus is still floating around, you should take steps to protect your family from 2009H1N1 and other active strains of the influenza virus. While you’re protecting your family, make sure you protect others, too. If you or your children have any flulike symptoms, stay home from work or school until the symptoms disappear and consult your health care professional.
Women’s Rights & Adoption
Despite your best efforts to use birth control, you may end up pregnant. Though most methods have high success rates, if used incorrectly, your chance of pregnancy increases. Should you find yourself unexpectedly pregnant, you have several options in the United States. You can keep the baby and raise it or you can choose not to keep the baby–either by aborting the fetus or giving the baby up for adoption.
H1N1 Vaccine
Whats going around? A lot of myths about the H1N1 virus!Weve all been inundated with a lot of information regarding the H1N1 flu (also referred to as swine flu), and it can be hard to know what to believe. I must admit, even I have found it confusing to sift through all the headlines and the hype. And, of course, there are all those e-mails floating around warning of government conspiracies, pharmaceutical greediness and toxic ingredients!