The NHS 111 is a 24 hour helpline designated for 'urgent but not life-threatening' health issues, and is currently in a pilot stage in County Durham & Darlington, Luton and the East Midlands, i.e. Nottingham and Lincolnshire in the UK. It is supposed to be rolled out nationally by April 2013, when the number will replace NHS Direct...
Research released today, and scheduled to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 21 to April 28, 2012, suggests that mothers with a history of migraines are more likely to have babies who have problems with colic. Colic is when a baby cries far more than a normal, healthy infant who might be hungry, need changing or have a little wind...
A study, published in JAMA of almost 400,000 children, showed that children had an increased risk of febrile seizures, a convulsion that occurs secondary to a rapid increase in body temperature on the day of the first and second vaccination, with the combined diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis-inactivated poliovirus - Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine...