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Affair led to mother murdering her own kids
Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.
Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009
The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before smothering them and killing them, court papers said.
She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.
Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on February 19 last year.
She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental illness.
As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after learning about her husband's affair. More..
Kids' migraines often go untreated
Severe headaches result in missed school days, activities and family time
Maclean's Magazine, April 18, 2006
More than six per cent of adolescents suffer from migraine
headaches, but only a fraction of those are receiving care, a new
study indicates.
Dr. Paul Winner, clinical associate professor of neurology at Nova
Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and director of
the Palm Beach Headache Center, recently presented results from a
survey of more than 18,700 U.S. adolescents. The survey showed that
five per cent of boys ages 12 to 19 and nearly eight per cent of
girls in that age range suffer from migraines.
"Adolescents have significant migraine," Winner says, adding that migraine headaches cause considerable disability in affected children.
"Over 60 per cent had severe headaches of consequence. Over 60 per cent had one to four headaches per month. That's a lot of pain, that's a lot of disability," Winner says. The result is missed school days, activities and family time. "These headaches are more influential in their lives than we realize."
The majority of adolescents with migraines (59 per cent) used only over-the-counter medication to treat acute headaches. Only 17 per cent of affected young people used prescribed medication to treat their condition.
The survey also shows migraines start to become more common in girls than boys at about age 14. The study authors think the influence of the female hormone estrogen is at least partially responsible for this disparity, which becomes more marked until adulthood, at which point migraine is three times more common in women than in men.
With files from The Medical Post.
