The Parents Zone

Health tips for overseas travelers To eat or not to eat? Street carts like this one from the night market in Marrakesh, Morocco, look delicious but may also pose a risk of food-borne illness.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Nothing puts a kink in overseas travel plans quite like an unexpected health issue.

From the mildly unpleasant “traveler’s tummy” to rarer, more serious diseases such as malaria, different places around the world have their own health risks. But staying healthy doesn’t mean staying home. There are a variety of preventive measures you can take to ensure that wanderlust is the only bug you catch on your vacation abroad.

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Beyonce pregnancy rumours have been circulating for years, and are continually shot down by the singer.

However, in a recent interview with Piers Morgan, the Sasha Fierce singer said she has less than one year to make her baby dreams come true – if she plans on following her life plan, that is.

 “I always said I’d have a baby at 30. I’m 29,” she said on Monday’s

She also teased: “But I also said I was going to retire at 30. I’m not retiri

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CONWAY, Mass Two Massachusetts towns are moving to ban sales of a “relaxation” brownie named Lazy Cakes, laced with melatonin and sold in food markets, after children who ate them required hospitalization.

The mellowing chocolate treats, which sell for $3 to $5 at food stores and some night clubs, are legal but contain nearly 8 milligrams of the supplemental sleep aid, which is about 25 times the usual amount prescribed for adults.

Melatonin is a hormone produced naturally by the body and standard doses in the Unites States, where it is available over the counter, and in Europe, where a prescription is typically required, range from 0.3 mg to 3 mg.

Considered a dietary supplement rather than a drug, melatonin is not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

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It was mid morning, April 14, 1989, in a maternity surgery suite at the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, where a tiny male child struggled for his first breaths of air. He entered the world early, after just twenty-six weeks gestation. Born premature, via a Cesarean section, this fragile baby weighed just two pounds and two ounces. Born to a birth mother who drank alcohol during his pregnancy, his prognosis was “iffy.” This tenacious, little fighter spent the next three months in the neonatal intensive care unit battling for his life.

By age three, this small African American boy had entered the Arizona foster care system along with his older brother and younger sister. Rem

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