Ideal Health Doctor

Just yesterday, a few friends of mine got to talking about working from home. Some companies have started to open up to the idea of letting people work from home. For companies this can actually be a good thing. They save up on overhead. They save up on space. But there can be dangers.

Distractions. Ive tried the whole work from home thing. And while you can contemplate on hacking away at work comfortable in your pajamas, home can provide a whole lot of distractions that you dont have at work. The TV. The chores. The pet.

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The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is asking parents to take action over home-based pollution, precisely because the developing brains and nervous systems of children are most prone to damage from a wide-range of everyday chemicals. The idea is to offer five practical and low-cost ways that parents can take up, to help to ‘environmentally childproof’ their homes.

So what are the measures that you can take to protect your kids?

1 Bust that dust: Surprisingly, dusty surfaces aren’t just a canvas for kids to doodle on, embarrassingly pointing out your lack of time to get household chores done.

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Hong Kong – A quadriplegic Hong Kong man who triggered a euthanasia debate by making a public appeal to be allowed to die went home Thursday after 19 years in hospital.

Tang Siu-pun, 41, left Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital, where he has lived since his accident, to begin a new life in a specially adapted flat.

He became an overnight celebrity in 2004 after writing to the chief executive and legislators from his hospital bed asking for the right to end his life.

Paralysed from the neck down in a gymnastics accident in 1991, Tang said at the time that he was a burden to his family, had no quality of life and wanted to be allowed to die with dignity.

His case met with widespread public sympathy and set off a heated debate about whether the law rendering assisted suicide illegal should be changed to allow people to end their lives. Read more…