Steven H. Feinsilver, MD, Director, Center for Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, provides advice and tips on adjusting to the end of Daylight Savings Time and getting a good night's sleep year-round.
This week, Ruth Madoff publicly admitted in an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes that she and husband Bernard attempted suicide after his Ponzi scheme was revealed. The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Melissa Gorga sported a fat suit in Times Square on Entertainment Tonight in an attempt at tolerance for overweight Americans. Dancing with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy mouthed off to judge Len Goodman on live TV and later expressed “no regrets," building anticipation for next week’s episode. Meanwhile, local affiliates nationwide are promoting the heck out of hidden dangers and hidden cameras.
Loyola University Health System child safety expert gives Halloween safety tips.
This candy-centric holiday can still be enjoyed by all who observe it — but in a way that makes the heart much happier.
Monsters, goblins and super-heroes will soon be descending on homes everywhere and while Halloween is a time for fun and treats, certain dangers abound. The key to keeping kids safe this year, and every year, is close parental supervision and a few trick-or-treat precautions. Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and experts in the Drug and Poison Information Center offer these tips to make this year's holiday a safe one.
Experts in various aspects of the macabre include several University at Buffalo faculty members who specialize in what in many cultures find horrible and terrifying.
They move slowly, with a blank stare, shuffling into your home. Before you download the Center for Disease Control’s zombie preparedness guide, relax. They’re not there to eat your brains. They’re just your college students, home for fall break and desperate to recuperate after their midterm exams.
On average, twice as many kids are killed in pedestrian accidents on Halloween compared to other days of the year. In an effort to keep kids safe this season, injury prevention experts from the U-M’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital urge parents to prepare children to act safely and drivers to take extra precautions. Included in the release are tips for parents and drivers on how to avoid potentially fatal accidents this fall.
Halloween is approaching, and many parents may wonder if trick-or-treating is safe. Dr. Luz Adriana Matiz, pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, suggests that with a few precautions, Halloween can be a happy and safe occasion for all. Dr. Matiz suggests that children limit trick-or-treating to familiar neighborhoods and neighbors.
Are vampires or zombies the hottest monsters this year? When did vampires get to be so sexy, anyway? And why do we spend so much money dressing up like them?
Trick or treating: it’s a time-honoured tradition that thousands of young children look forward to every year. But some children may be a little uneasy, or even fearful, of people dressed up as strange-looking creatures wandering through their neighbourhood on All Hallows’ Eve asking for candy and treats. Professor Martin Antony, a leading expert on phobias and chair of Ryerson University’s psychology department, offers a few tips to parents to help ease their children’s anxieties -- and have some fun this Halloween.
Halloween is fun for a lot of people, but for some young children it can be terrifying. Wichita State school psychologist trainer Susan Unruh offers some tips for making Halloween a fun experience.
Loyola Center for Fitness offers tips to help make Halloween a not-so-weighty fright night.
Not all Halloween treats have to be sweet. Children's literature experts at Kansas State University say the holiday is a great time to treat kids to scary or horror-related literary works written especially for them. Recommendations inside.
More than unemployment or new home sales, UAB expert says Halloween is key indicator of how robust the holiday season will be for retailers.
The American Academy of Pediatricians does NOT recommend staying home from school even if your child has lice. Like vampires, lice do suck the blood of humans and "come out" around Halloween but a Loyola pediatric infectious disease specialist debunks many myths about lice.
Carb counting and insulin pumps help diabetic kids sample Halloween’s sweet indulgences.
Scary masks, ghostly décor and haunted houses are enough to spook many adults this time of year, so imagine how frightening Halloween can be for children. To avoid unnecessary shrieks of terror, try to experience Halloween through the eyes of your child, suggests Deborah Best, a child psychology expert and professor of psychology at Wake Forest University (www.wfu.edu).
UAB experts in pediatrics and child psychology say fall sports aren’t just for getting another trophy for your child.
The ACAAI and its allergist members – doctors who are experts at diagnosing and treating allergies and asthma – suggest watching out for six sneaky triggers to keep Halloween sneeze-, wheeze- and reaction-free.
Doctor describes simple way you can protect you and your family against colds and flu.
As ragweed season begins, a Saint Louis University allergist offers steps for relief.
Six tips to combat hay fever misery.
Once a year cartoon characters, fairy princesses and action heroes gather at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as hundreds of employees work together to turn the hospital into a giant trick-or-treat trail for children battling cancer and other catastrophic diseases.
Watch out for that post-Halloween sugar crash on Monday, as well-meaning co-workers bring in buckets and bowls of leftover candy. Too many Halloween treats can expand your waistline and decrease your productivity.
On the football fields of upstate New York, Ithaca College and Cortland State vie each fall for the Cortaca Jug in what “Sports Illustrated” once called “the biggest little game in the nation.” Off the field, that rivalry has taken a new turn.
People come for miles to view the eerie glow that appears near the tiny town of Paulding, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A team of electrical engineering students has figured out what it is. But will anyone believe them?
Pint-sized ghosts and goblins will descend on Loyola University Health System’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) this Halloween when the hospital’s smallest patients dress up in costumes created by the nurses.
Chocolate bars are a popular Halloween treat, but some come with a cruel trick—abusive and hazardous child labor in West African cocoa farms. “Few of us will give any thought to how the 90 million pounds of chocolate candy given out this Halloween was made, who made it and under what conditions,” write Charita L. Castro, PhD, and Jialan Wang, PhD, assistant professors at Washington University in St. Louis, in an opinion piece published today by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Loyola dietician offers tips to help you eat healthier, maintain your without depriving yourself of seasonal treats.
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary wants the public, patients and their families to stay safe on Halloween. There are several tips that parents can mind to keep their children safe.
Wake Forest legal scholar examines 60 years of cemetery law and finds commercialization has replaced individual choice, family custom and religious belief in burial decisions.
Physicians describe why having blood work done is important for treating patients.
Monsters, goblins and super-heroes will soon be descending on homes everywhere and while Halloween is a time for fun and treats, certain dangers abound.
While many people will be pursuing the latest pop culture icons as Halloween costumes this year, one of the annual icons of Halloween might be viewed as the Rodney Dangerfield of Halloween symbols. The legendary comedian based his career on the line “I get no respect,” which might also apply to the misunderstood flying mammal known as bats. The animals often carry a negative connotation that doesn’t reflect the respective role bats play in biological ecosystems. Dr. Erin Gillam, a biological researcher at North Dakota State University, Fargo, conducts research on the role bats play in ecosystems around the globe, as well as on their ability to communicate.
Never fear: It’s OK to let your kids gorge on candy this Halloween because it’s not the amount of candy they eat, but the frequency with which they eat it, that raises cavity risk.
Everyone knows this popular Halloween game: turn out the lights, pass around a dried apricot and it’s easy to believe it’s a human earlobe. Peel some grapes and in the dark they feel just like human eyeballs. It’s a game that tricks the senses and it’s something Saint Joseph’s University psychologist Alex Skolnick, Ph.D., has been doing in his lab for the last several years.
On a night full of costumes and candy, parents should not have to live in fear for the safety of their children. To help ensure little witches and goblins enjoy a safe Halloween, Nationwide Children’s Hospital offers a few quick safety tips.
According to the National Retail Federation, the average American will spend $66.28 on Halloween this year. Second only to costumes, candy eats up the largest chunk of this budget with American families spending an average of $22 each Halloween on confections. When trick-or-treating entered the American scene in the 1920s, neighbors gave children items like apples, pastries, breads and even money. So why, 40 years later, are there $1 billion in candy sales each Halloween? How has food marketing taken over this tradition?
Loyola University Health System pediatrician gives food allergy tips to prepare for Halloween.
Tips for an allergy and asthma safe Halloween.
K-State's Susan Nelson, assistant professor of clinical services, says chocolate consumption by many pets, including dogs, cats, ferrets, birds and rats, can be extremely hazardous.
According to Kansas State University food experts, the shelf life of candy varies depending on the type of candy, packaging and storage conditions.
Texas Tech faculty know blood suckers, brain eaters and the horrors of Halloween buyer's remorse.
David Wolfe, professor of plant and soil ecology at Cornell University, comments on the factors determining the brilliance of the 2010 fall color display in the Northeast.
Tips for hay fever sufferers to find relief this fall.
As fun as it is to obsess over and be scared by fictional vampires, the real things are much more fascinating. Here is some blood-curdling information from National Wildlife Federation on living, breathing vampires that might just be stalking you.
The season is right for reading tales of mystery and terror. A Wake Forest University professor suggests several scary books, and considers why we enjoy being scared.
Why is Halloween on the rise as a popular celebration? Many young adults just want an excuse to dress up and party. But there is more to it than that, says a U. of Denver communication professor. There is also greater interest in the paranormal and the supernatural.
Loyola Center for Fitness Offers tips for a healthy and happy Halloween.
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