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• Adult Music For Little Kids: Get Over It

  When we get in the car, my daughter puts in her musical requests. "The Rolling Stones, please!" Yes, she's three (almost four), and she loves her some Mick and Keith.  The quota of "adult" music to kiddie tunes in her section of my iPod is an almost two to one ratio. Just because they're kids doesn't mean they have to listen to inane bouncing around nonsense, right? Right? Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 11:26 AM by JeanneSager with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: music, Mick Jagger, pills, Jeanne Sager, rolling stones, influence, role model, lady gaga

• They Say: Prozac When Pregnant Can Cause Heart Problems in Babies

  This is a case of ‘you’re damned if you don’t’,  but really ‘damned if you do’. And in this case, you won’t be the only one who’s damned.  Jezebel found on Science Daily that pregnant woman who take fluoxetine, which is the generic name for good old Prozac, are four times as likely... Read More... Posted Nov 24 2008, 06:30 PM by SunnyChanel with | with no comments Filed under: health, pregnancy, Prozac, pills, they say, heart

• Girl being kept alive by Viagra

  I can see the ads now. "Viagra – it's not just for boners anymore." Case in point: Natalie Archibald, a 7 year old girl from Scotland, "collapsed after opening her presents on Christmas Day two years ago." At first doctors thought she was just "over-excited," but it turns out she suffers from a condition called primary pulmonary hypertension. After two years of treatment that yielded no results, doctors gave her Viagra. Read More... Posted Sep 06 2008, 10:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: health, news, medicine, drugs, viagra, doctors, pills, Brett Singer, natalie archibald, diseases

• Springing Forward Makes Mommy and Daddy Cry

  Like taking candy from a baby, easy but oh so very mean.  Taking sleep and time away from busy parents is a cruel trick of Daylight Savings, even with the energy saving benefits and more light in the evening results.   It's well-established most parents are sleep-deprived on some level especially in that first year of baby's life. Apparently, the trouble with changes wrought by Daylight Savings Time go beyond insufficient sleep for a few days...   Read More... Posted Mar 09 2008, 06:58 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: sleep deprivation, drugging babies to sleep, pills, sleeping pills