Tagged: Child Health

Anti-fluoridationists exploit infant deaths by fiddling statistics - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Apr 09, 2017 •

• Child Health,
• fluoride,
• Health and Medicine,
• infant,
• preterm,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• statistics

The local anti-fluoride people have not stopped rabbiting away with their “science” – searching for anything bad they can argue is caused by community water fluoridation. The latest claim they make – fluoridation is responsible for infant deaths! And they have some statistics to “prove” this. The table below presented by well-known US anti-fluoride activist, Karen Favazza Spencer, in … Read More

Antibiotic resistance is looming but we can protect the children - Guest Work

InfectedNZ • Nov 22, 2016 •

• antibiotic resistance,
• antibiotics,
• Child Health,
• InfectedNZ,
• Infectious disease

In another life I used to sit on teams that developed something called ‘clinical guidance’. We would draw together published evidence and make recommendations on what best practice should look like. I sat on one such group for rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever (RF) is a disease now seen mainly in developing countries (apart, of course, from the poor pockets of … Read More

Kidz Go Free… - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Dec 13, 2010 •

• child abuse,
• Child Health,
• Child Poverty,
• Children's Commission,
• Children's Social Health Monitor,
• Cindy Kiro,
• Elizabeth Craig,
• Emergency Departments,
• Employment,
• Families,
• John Angus,
• Medical Practice,
• Sciblogs

The Herald has a fascinating example of how statistics can be filtered through an agenda to say, more or less, what you want. The latest set of statistics from the Children’s Social Health Monitor have been interpreted by Prof Cindy Kiro and the current Children’s Commissioner, John Angus, to mean that the recession is having [...] Related posts: … Read More

The Hole in Maternity (Updated) - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Jun 06, 2010 •

• Birth,
• Child Health,
• GP obstetricians,
• Maternity,
• Medical Practice,
• Midwifery,
• National,
• Neonatal Mortality,
• neonates,
• Obstetrics,
• Sciblogs

Once more the maternity system in New Zealand is under fire in the Dominion post, with a couple of articles involving the death of newborn babies. In the first article, the newborn died from haemorrhagic disease (excessive bleeding) because the parents refused to allow their child to have vitamin K. Too much internet disinformation can [...] Related posts: … Read More

Bacon With Your Vaccine? - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • May 09, 2010 •

• Child Health,
• ethics,
• FDA,
• Infectious Diseases,
• Pharmaceuticals,
• research,
• Rotarix,
• RotaTeq,
• Rotavirus,
• Safety,
• Sciblogs,
• Stupidity,
• vaccination,
• vaccines

In a move that defies all logic, the FDA advisory panel investigating the contamination of Rotavirus vaccine with pig virus has recommended that vaccine use be continued because “The vaccines offer a clear public health benefit that far outweighs a “theoretical” risk from PCV (Porcine Circo-virus)”. How very reassuring. Not. PCV type 1 was found [...] Related posts: … Read More

Profit and Loss - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Mar 08, 2010 •

• Child Health,
• Cold and Flu medicine,
• Medical Practice,
• Medsafe,
• Ministry of Health,
• National,
• Paracetamol,
• Pharmacists,
• Safety,
• Sciblogs

Not satisfied with rendering cold and flu medicines ineffective by removing pseudoephedrine from general sale, Medsafe continues it’s onslaught on cold and flu meds by trying to remove all the syrups and infusions from supermarket shelves. Apparently they are concerned about the use of them in under sixes (despite the fact that fatalities are very [...] Related posts: … Read More

…Another Man’s Poison. - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Feb 07, 2010 •

• Allergies,
• Child Health,
• Diet,
• EpiPen,
• Hazards,
• Healthy Food,
• Junk Food,
• Sciblogs

I would imagine that there is nothing scarier for a teacher than to be confronted by a child having a full-blown allergic reaction to something. It is pretty stressful for emergency-trained doctors and nurses so it must be doubly so for a non-medical person. Schools have the dilemma of wishing to reduce the risk of [...] Related posts: … Read More

Ethical Jab? - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Nov 27, 2009 •

• Child Health,
• ethics,
• Hippocratic Oath,
• immunisation,
• Medical Ethics,
• Medscape,
• Sciblogs,
• vaccination

I discovered this very interesting poll on Medscape today: What is interesting is that 17% of physicians who answered this survey think it is ethical to refuse to see a child whose parents have chosen not to vaccinate (this has remained stable at around 17% for the past 500 or so votes). I find this quite [...] Related posts: … Read More

Dead Babies - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Nov 22, 2009 •

• Child Health,
• Childbirth,
• Cindy Farquhar,
• Maternity,
• Medical Practice,
• Perinatal Mortality,
• research,
• Sciblogs,
• statistics,
• Stillbirth

Stillbirths are traumatic. I am a seasoned provider of terminal care, so the dying process does not phase me, like it phases many of my colleagues. Even so, the death of a baby is horribly unpleasant and even more so when the baby is stillborn or dies soon after birth. All that expectation of happiness [...] Related posts: … Read More

Accidental Baby - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Nov 10, 2009 •

• Abortion,
• ACC,
• Child Health,
• Childhood Disabilities,
• Disabilities,
• ethics,
• Funding,
• Justice,
• Sciblogs

I have a great deal of misgiving about the attempt of a couple to claim under ACC for the accident of their daughter’s birth. Their daughter’s spina bifida (open spine at birth) was not discovered on ultrasound and, as the parents insist that they would have aborted her, if they had known, they are trying [...] Related posts: … Read More