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Main Menu Home MCQ EMQ Cases Books News News Feeds Guidelines What is Paediatrics? Links Search Contact Us About News from JuniorDr.com Think you have the flu? Time to ask Google Medical Report - James Bond 007 The Killer Net - pro-suicide websites Conscientious objection should be right, say med students Repatriation medicine The Business of Surgery GP consultations increasingly more intense and complex Doctor migration to developed nations costs sub-Saharan Africa billions of dollars GMC cuts fees for all doctors BMA: UKFPO must ?get a grip? on jobs for newly qualified doctors Newsflash Complementary and alternative medicines: adverse events. Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) and therapies are often regarded as "natural" and, therefore, harmless. However, for the the vast majority of CAMs no formal testing or adverse event reporting mechanisms are in place. A study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood studied adverse effects associated with CAMs. Read more...   Paracetamol use in infancy linked to later atopy A recent paper in the Lancet reports an association between the use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) in infants and the reporting of atopic symptoms at the age of 6-7 years. The paper by Prof. Beasley (Medical Research Institute of New Zealand) administered questionnaires to the parents of over 200,000 children. The study found that children given paracetamol in the first year of life had a increased risk of asthma symptoms, as well as symptoms of rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema. This study does not demonstrate causality as paracetamol use may be a marker for other possible links to atopy such as infections or lifestyle choices.   < Prev   Next > [ Back ]

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