When poison looks edible
blogs.babycenter.com 3/16/2009 — A story on Yahoo! News has been on my mind ever since reading it. Ten kids in Alabama were hospitalized after their day-care provider accidentally served them windshield-wiper fluid. The lady had inadvertently put it in the refrigerator after a ...

Pick Your Poison
motherhoodinnyc.com 7/13/2009 — I woke up on Sunday morning and casually asked Husbandrinka how would he kill me if he were so inclined and he had a really unfortunate reaction that included saying things like "is this a trick question" and "there's no way that I'm answering THAT". What's with all the secrecy? Look--we get up ...

Principal, Parents Tangle Over Race Questionnaire
blogs.babble.com 6/4/2009 — Can a school principal ask her staff to report how often the black kids are getting in trouble? What about calling for a report of how many Hispanic troublemakers are sitting in the classrooms? Parents say Claudia Moore-Hamilton was crossing a racial line when she asked her teachers to fill ...

Mom Charged For Cursing at Principal
blogs.babble.com 1/14/2010 — Cindy Schwalb says her 13-year-old daughter had recently been the victim of sexual harassment and bullying at Hasbrouck Heights Middle School. During gym class, she says, a male student pulled the girl’s sweatpants down to her ankles in full view of her classmates.

School Principal Mocks Nut Allergies in Letter
momlogic.com 2/4/2010 — Wow, if my kid went to Litchfield Elementary School in Arizona right now, I would be mad as hell. You'll never believe the letter that was sent home with students!

Practice may not make perfect, but it could bring increased happiness later — Booster Shots 10/30/2009
Frustrating though trying and trying again may be at the time, such practice appears to pay off psychologically down the road. In a study assessing various factors affecting   overall well-being and hourly well-being, researchers at ...

Ten million swine flu doses this week, officials say — Booster Shots 11/1/2009
Ten million new doses of vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus will become available in the next week, easing the shortages of vaccine that have occurred around the country, administration officials said over the weekend. Health and ...

Know what to do about swine flu webcast this morning — Booster Shots 11/4/2009
The Department of Health and Human Services will host a Know What To Do About the Flu webcast this morning at 10 a.m. PST. Participants include Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Gloria Addo Ayensu of the ...

Health crimes and punishments: Employers -- and employees -- can decide — Booster Shots 11/4/2009
Turns out, those employer wellness programs are not the benignly helpful initiatives that some Americans might have perceived them to be. Sure, they encourage workers to act in their own best health interests, but they're now also ...

Where technology meets health... — Booster Shots 11/5/2009
Our colleagues over at the Times' Technology blog pose this question: "Could exorcising your unhealthy habits in a virtual world mitigate your desire to engage in them in the real one?" None of the Booster Shots writers or ...