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Health Tip: Secure Your Child in a Booster Seat

By HealthCast on October 22, 2012

A booster seat is used to restrain an older child until he or she is big enough to use a seat belt.

The Nemours Foundation offers these booster-seat safety tips:

Carefully read the seat’s entire instruction manual.
Make sure the lap belt fits low and snug across the child’s hips.
Make sure the shoulder belt rests snug and flat across the shoulder and doesn’t cross the neck or face.
Make sure the seat belt is never twisted.
If the child buckles himself or herself in, check the belt and booster seat afterward to ensure it’s been done properly.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Secure Your Child in a Booster Seat

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