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 VitaBeat Health News - January 8, 2009
| A new study on an emergency seizure drug for children is underway at 11 hospitals nationwide, including the University of Michigan Health System. Health care professionals will compare two drugs for prolonged, life-threatening seizures and report which one works best. | | A nine-year-old Hillsboro, Texas boy, whose head was detached in a car accident three months ago, has miraculously survived and is recovering after doctors reattached his skull to his spine. "As far as I'm concerned, he has a full recovery -- he is neurologically intact. He walks -- that's one of the biggest things. He isn't weak and is active; it's amazing," Dr. Richard Roberts, the pediatric surgeon who led an operation to reattach the skull of Jordan Taylor to his spine with a metal plate and titanium rods, told CBS News on Monday. "He's done better than anyone thought he would. His injury is normally catastrophic, fatal, and he managed to survive." The doctor from the Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Fort Worth said Taylor suffered an orthopedic decapitation or the separation of his skull from his neck when a wayward truck bumped the car he was riding in. | | Despite an agreement signed last week to impose tough standards on toy safety in the European Union, the European Consumers Association said the rules were not sufficient. Monique Goyens, director-general of the ECA, said while it acknowledged the new rules will bring some improvements on the safety of European children, it is focused more on the interests of the toy industry than on EU tykes. | | A beauty treatment gaining popularity in Thailand because of its promise to erase wrinkles by injecting animal stem cells on the face may have fatal consequences, Thai doctors warned Monday. According to Dr. Tanom Bunaprasert, assistant professor at Chulalongkorn University's Medical School, some patients after they have been injected with several doses of animal stem cells went into anaphylactic shock as a hypersensitive reaction to the cells. | | December 19, 2008 - Topics childEvenflo is recalling about 95,000 Majestic High Chairs after receiving over 1,000 complaints that included reports of parts coming lose and either posing a choking hazard or causing injuries when a child falls out of the chair or collides with other objects. The recall applies to chairs made before Jan. 23, 2007 and sold and nationwide from January 2006 through May 2007. | |
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