Clostridium perfringens Food Poisoning

Infant Botulism

Jointspecific symptoms

Fulminant symptoms

Parkinsonian symptoms

Health Tip: Easing Teething Pain

-- Newer parents may feel helpless when they've got a teething, cranky baby on their hands. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these suggestions to help soothe teething babies: Use your finger...

Teething baby? Avoid benzocaine, FDA says

(HealthDay) -- Parents should not use benzocaine products to relieve teething pain in babies except under the advice and supervision of a health care professional, the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...

Nigerian court jails two over killer teething drug

A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison over the sale of an adulterated teething drug which killed 84 babies in 2008.

Teething Baby? Avoid Benzocaine, FDA Says

SUNDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Parents should not use benzocaine products to relieve teething pain in babies except under the advice and supervision of a health care professional, the U.S. Food a...

Self-poisoning on the rise

Hospital admissions for people self-poisoning has risen 50% in a decade.

Infant Mortality Drops 12% In Six Years, USA

After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Redu...

Infant Mortality Rates Decline, USA

After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Redu...

Health Tip: If Your Child Develops Food Poisoning

-- If your child develops a bad case of food poisoning, it can take a few days of TLC before he feels better. The Nemours Foundation offers these tips for the parents of a child with food poisoning:...

Teething: myths and facts.

'born with a silver spoon in his mouth' denotes borne into wealth and privilege. This adage is derived from a teething remedy that was used by the affluent.

The analgesic effects and mechanisms of orally administered eugenol.

In the present study, the antinociceptive profiles of eugenol were examined in ICR mice. Eugenol administered orally (from 1 to 10 mg/kg) showed an antinociceptive effect in a dose-dependent manner as...

Intrathecal eugenol administration alleviates neuropathic pain in male Sprague-Dawley rats.

The main objective of this study was to determine the central effect of eugenol on neuropathic pain when injected intrathecally at the level of the lumbar spinal cord. In a preliminary study the penet...

Outcome of patients with lithium poisoning at a far-east poison center.

Introduction: Lithium is a popular medication for bipolar disorder, but very little work has been done to study Asian patients with lithium poisoning. Methods: A total of 21 out of 7140 poisoned patie...

Mechanisms underlying the protective effect of eugenol in rats with acute doxorubicin cardiotoxicity.

The protective effect of eugenol and its possible mechanisms were investigated in rats with acute doxorubicin cardiotoxicity. Cardiac toxicity was induced by a single intraperitoneal injection of doxo...