An unwanted baby “I didn’t want him. I can hardly say it. I simply did not want him. I did not want a third child. Now, he is so beautiful. So beautiful, and I love him so. Do anything in the world for him. But the thought recurs. How wicked of me not to have [...]

The sting of a bee may cause dangerous allergic reactions in an atopic child. The symptoms vary according to the amount of venom injected, the presence of sensitivity, and the place of the sting. A normal reaction consists of the formation of a wheal, irritation, itching, and local heat. The reaction disappears without treatment three [...]

Smoking There is so much information out there about the risks you run of getting lung cancer, emphysema and other diseases if you smoke. Thankfully, many people are now aware of the detrimental effects of smoking when a woman is pregnant. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 compounds and these pass directly into the foetal [...]

It will be clear from the above that preventing suicide can be difficult. However, almost anyone who is close to or connected with a suicide victim blames themselves to some extent, feels guilty and wonders what they could have done to prevent it. Some ideas for prevention have been mentioned above. Here are some more [...]

Alcoholism is a complex and ill-defined condition in which a person is addicted to alcohol either physically, psychologically or socially. It is almost impossible to know exactly how many people are affected by alcoholism, if only because the boundary between heavy social drinking and true alcoholism is so difficult to define. Alcohol certainly affects the [...]