Diabetes: dirty air 'may raise' insulin resistance risk

Continue reading the main storyChildren's exposure to air traffic pollution could increase their risk of insulin resistance,which can lead to diabetes in adults, suggests a study in Diabetologia.

"Breathing the same pollutant concentrations, children may have a two to fourfold higher dose reaching the lung”Prof Frank Kelly, King's College London.

German research on 397 10-year-olds found that living close to a major road increased resistance by 7% per 500m. Air pollutants are known to be oxidisers that can

Sucking on your kid's pacifier: good idea or gross?

(Reuters Health) - Toddlers are less likely to have asthma and itchy rashes if their parents "cleaned" their pacifiers by sucking on them when the kids were infants, a small new study suggests.

The findings don't prove that technique protects kids against asthma, eczema or other allergies. But researchers said it's possible the transfer

Decades-old question: Is antibacterial soap safe?

It's a chemical that's been in U.S. households for more than 40 years, from the body wash in your bathroom shower to the knives on your kitchen counter to the bedding in your baby's basinet.

But federal health regulators are just now deciding whether triclosan — the germ-killing ingredient found in an estimated 75 percent of antibacterial liquid