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Scientists have been working with strands of the avian flu (also known as the bird flu and H5N1) to try and develop a vaccine. At first glance, that might seem normal: every vaccine we consent to contains a live virus ...

Cloth diapering is an intimidating endeavor to any parent who has no experience with it. The ease of disposable diapering is more obviously apparent, especially to new parents. However, the savings from using cloth diapers are significant and worth it ...

When your pets get sick or hurt, it can be very upsetting and a helpless feeling if you don’t know how to ease their discomfort. Veterinary care can often cost a lot more than a mortgage payment just to treat ...

I first became interested in herbs when I was pregnant with my third child. My first two pregnancies were highly medicalized affairs that left me feeling emotionally unsatisfied and disconnected from my own body. When I discovered I was pregnant ...

In a perfect world, every child would discover the joy of reading early on. Children would learn to read as easily as they learned to walk. Some children do seem to have an innate ability to decode language and words, ...

Though most American families readily acknowledge that they’re in need of an emergency kit (or several), few families actually have these kits ready, and even fewer families have a strong concept of what to include in these kits. What Kind ...

Ever since their inception just a couple hundred years ago, vaccines have always been a subject of heated debate.  You have those who are completely against, those who are completely for, and then there are those who are either on ...

We’ve all seen those commercials for various cleaning products that claim to kill up to 99 percent of household germs. If you are a new parent then this can be very appealing, especially if you’ve been alarmed by the number ...

Educating your kids about realistic dangers that they’re likely to encounter shouldn’t be an ordeal. In fact, with my parents, it was always a game. Even if your child isn’t the victim of a violent crime, they’re likely to see ...

Even if you do your best to prepare for the worst, sometimes things just go wrong.  There may be a natural disaster in which you lose all of your canned goods, or stuff could actually hit the fan leaving you ...