From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Infection Cause of Cot Death

by Isaak Kwok on September 24, 2008

in Child Health

Previously, I talked about SIDS. But a recent study by The Women’s and Children’s Hospital in the UK and the University of Adelaide in Australia have found that bacterial infection could be the cause of some cases of cot death in the UK. The researchers found that the babies who died without apparent reasons carried […]

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A Little DIrt is Good for You

by Isaak Kwok on September 23, 2008

in Child Health,Parenting

Sometimes it’s good to have a little dirt in the house, according to a research that would be published in Nature soon. The American scientists in the research found that mice living in a germ-free environment developed type-1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease. So, having a totally sterile home is instead not too good […]

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