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The ever-acerbic Simon Jenkins makes some good points about swine flu hysteria in today's Guardian. Thank god someone's talking sense, to counter the increasingly frenzied, contradictory and downright silly comments from Government and media alike. Jenkins pours scorn on the...

(Seventh BfR Consumer Protection Forum views children as consumers) Risks for children must be assessed differently from risks for adults. When evaluating potential risks from chemical substances, risk assessors must bear in mind that in relation to their body weight...

Following the lead of the American Academy of Pediatrics, France's broadcast authority last year banned French channels from airing programmes aimed at children under three. The High Audiovisual Council took the bold step to shield children from the developmental risks...

Alternative medicine is a multibillion-pound global business. An ever-increasing body of practitioners claim that treatments such as ear candles, reflexology, herbal medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture and homeopathy can cure everything from colic to drug addiction and whooping cough. And,...