Electrical Grounding Technique May Improve Health Outcomes of NICU Babies - by Penn State University

Extract: A technique called "electrical grounding" may moderate preterm infants’ electromagnetic exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

- and improve their health outcomes, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Equipment in the NICU produces low-frequen

Exposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries – video and report

Extract from Amnesty website dated 19 January 2016:

“Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnest

Disability Benefits Consortium benefits survey 2017- England UK

The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is a national coalition of over 80 different charities and other organisations committed to working towards a fair benefits system for disabled people, people with long-term conditions and their carer

Skills, strengths and needs of practitioners and teams providing PBS to children & young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities - UK

Are you a professional using PBS (positive behaviour support) to support children and young people with learning disabilities or Autism Spectrum Condition?

Does this describe what you do?

“I use PBS to support other people who provide dir

Strong Foundations: Getting it Right in the First 1000 Days. Major project and paper from Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne, Australia

From the Strong Foundations Project website: The ‘first thousand days’ refers to the period of development from conception to age 2. While early years experts have long been aware that this is an important period of development, researchers

Psychosocial experiences of adults with an intellectual disability and a chronic illness

Samantha Flynn writes: I’ve recently updated the searches for my PhD systematic review. The review aims to identify, summarise and evaluate all available evidence pertaining to the psychosocial experiences of adults with an intellectual disa

Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy tied to autism risk. Article by Hannah Furfaro

From Spectrum website: Children born to women who had low blood levels of vitamin D while pregnant more than double their risk of autism.

The findings come from a study of more than 4,000 children in the Netherlands. Only 68 of the children

Lead detected in 20% of baby food samples, surprising even researchers – article by Lydia Zuraw on June 15, 2017. What about baby food in your country?

From website of California Healthline: Pediatricians and public health researchers know they have to be on the lookout for lead exposure from paint chips and contaminated drinking water. A new report suggests food — particularly baby food —