By now it should be clear that few things set me off more than shoddy media coverage of medical issues, particularly when important caveats are either omitted or distorted. Today's Globe and Mail (our national newspaper!!!) had a sensational front-page report on a study presented at a recent meeting by one of my colleages, which tripped every outrage switch in my head.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-few-less-weeks-in-the-wom...

Since the study has not yet appeared in print, there is not even an opportunity to see full results or be reassured by an appropriate peer review. Though these comments won't appear in print, I will feel better if given an opportunity to ventilate. So here goes!

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Journal of Theoretical Biology vs. People magazine: controversy, scandal, and newborn gender ratios

The www.mother-child.org website has just undergone an extensive revision in an effort to provide a clear, concise image of our basic premises and purpose. We believe that these revisions will improve your access to the site’s facilities thereby helping you to achieve your objectives in research. So it’s a good time for us to question our own motives and methods in developing and promoting this website.

Specifically, we need your responses to the following questions:

Paediatric and child health nurses face multiple challenges and barriers in everyday practice. Through the implementation of the theme "Crossing barriers", this conference aims to illustrate that barriers can and must be crossed to improve health outcomes for children and young people. The conference aims are:

* to advance paediatric and child health nursing's contribution to health care and facilitate the dissemination of evidence highlighting effective nursing interventions
* to arise the profile of the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration
* to identify future directions for paediatric and child health nursing
* to provide a forum that stimulates debate and collegiality

Conference sub-themes are:

* Clinical practice
* Child safety

The conference will include plenary presentations by Topic Chairs and a Keynote Speaker, oral presentations, student-oriented programming, and several poster sessions. Specific conference themes include: Community and School-based Interventions in Child Health Psychology; Evidence-Based Approaches to Assessment in Pediatric Psychology; Evaluating and Treating Trauma; and Motivational Interviewing.

http://www.childhealthpsych2008.com/

In September 2007, we will conduct the first of what we hope will be a series of distance learning workshops on topics of importance to all young scientists.

In developing countries where Western influence has promoted a lifestyle of little physical activity and high calorie foods, cases of obesity have tripled in the past 20 years.Hassan P et al.

Just as an electronic network can provide many of the assets of an actual research institute, its weblogging facility provides an easily accessed substitute for those corridor conversations and discus

Step by step, the KMC method is diffusing in all the neonatal units as a tool for humanizing the high technology or to complement the scarcity of human y/o technological resources in the big health ob