Posted on January 26, 2016 · Leave a Comment
In this week’s Children’s Safety News: Parents Beware: 5 Smartphone Uses That Could Get Your Kids Convicted https://t.co/c6WqTJmCzR
Welcome to Pediatric Safety’s weekly “Child Health & Safety News Roundup”- a recap of the past week’s child health and safety news headlines from around the world. Each day we use Twitter and Facebook to communicate relevant and timely health and safety information to the parents, medical professionals and other caregivers who follow us. Occasionally we may miss something, but we think overall we’re doing a pretty good job of keeping you informed. But for our friends and colleagues not on Twitter or FB (or who are but may have missed something), we offer you a recap of the past week’s top 20 events & stories.
- Keeping Your Profile Pristine But Public During College Application Season https://t.co/vRCrXqTVEW 2016-01-23
- St. John Ambulance Makes Cartoon Infant CPR Video https://t.co/6Oqqgjd17e Silly…but effective 2016-01-23
- Should You Have A Water Birth? https://t.co/P3hxgLrxFN 2016-01-23
- Mobile Phone Forensics – What You and Your Family Need to Know – Yoursphere for Parents https://t.co/nMIcXFWXpZ 2016-01-22
- From improving the patient experience to pain mgmt, here are 5 healthcare opts that were lacking at JPM16 https://t.co/aRHGtogmPc 2016-01-22
PedSafe Child Health & Safety Headline of the Week:
Zika Warning Spotlights Latin America’s Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
https://t.co/rZMgZI8vgq *
- Healthy Snacks for Hungry Kids | Healthy Child Healthy World https://t.co/RSsEWV2jRZ 2016-01-21
- Autism Society and AMC Show Norm of the North this Saturday https://t.co/iUHHqwV56K 2016-01-21
- Watch Out – Online Predators On The Rise https://t.co/D7b0lrQ1pd 2016-01-20
- America’s First School District to Serve 100% Organic Meals https://t.co/6EuOJ8FznS 2016-01-20
- 5 Routine Ways Your Family Risks Its Privacy Every Day – McAfee https://t.co/w4ADWBp0eI 2016-01-20
- Video: Dyslexia Insights from a Young Man and a Psychologist https://t.co/AkiHYzg7JG 2016-01-20
- 6 Ways to protect kids from toxic jewelry https://t.co/DX0pD0qMNZ 2016-01-19
- Teens with Sleep Problems More Reactive to Stress https://t.co/3BTt5UBQS8 2016-01-19
- The evidence is clear: Tackle football is too risky for children | Very interesting perspective/argument – https://t.co/6l8Umv5S3N 2016-01-18
- How to be a smart parent: Internet Safety – https://t.co/ozdliOmqcw 2016-01-18
- American Airlines Admits Crew Shouldn’t Have Refused To Allow Safety Harness, Will Modify Pre-Flight Manual – https://t.co/McZOgg36Jb 2016-01-18
- Beware of Plug In Devices: They Can Put Your Family At Risk https://t.co/u4c5N1yFBW 2016-01-18
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*Editor’s Note: According to the World Health Organization, it is highly likely we will see Zika in the U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/health/who-zika-virus-americas/ We will continue to provide updates on Twitter as they become available.
