Archive for January 23rd, 2007

post thumbnail
23
Jan
2007

Introducing: Mutsy Urban Rider

High end strollers have become all the rage in the last few years. They are the way of showing your status while shopping at the mall or out at the park with your friends. Years ago it was Silver Cross, now parents flock to the Bugaboo, Orbit, icandy and the newly introduced Mutsy.

All [...]

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
23
Jan
2007

Would you Breastfeed Anywhere?

Toronto should guarantee a mother’s right to breast-feed “anytime, anywhere,” according to the Medical Officer of Health.
The board of health will next week consider a report from Dr. David McKeown that calls upon Toronto to “develop a policy that affirms the right of breast-feeding mothers to breast-feed in all public places controlled by the municipality.”
[...]

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
23
Jan
2007

Newborns To Be Tested For Immunodeficiency Disease

Doctors were stumped. Tests for meningitis, cancer, a list of other diseases all were negative — yet just days after a sudden high fever sent eight-week-old Anthony James Mingione to the hospital, he died.

An autopsy uncovered the lethal secret: Anthony was born without a working immune system. A rare genetic disorder known as the “bubble [...]

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
23
Jan
2007

Update: Second Sextuplet Has Died

A second of the six babies born earlier this month in a Vancouver hospital in Canada’s first delivery of sextuplets has died, a Vancouver radio station reported yesterday.

CKNW Radio reported that another of the babies born prematurely after 25 weeks of gestation and in intensive care at British Columbia Women’s Hospital had died. The station, [...]

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued