Roughly 66,000 young children are treated in emergency rooms each year for injuries blamed on nursery products, according to a recent study that looked at 21 years of data involving injuries to kids under age three.

The biggest villain: baby carriers, which accounted for one-fifth of all injuries, followed by cribs, mattresses and strollers. Most injuries occurred in the home and involved some sort of fall.

Turn on Your Heart Light

Successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation is all about a steady, appropriately paced number of chest compressions per minute. The Bee Gees' aptly named hit "Stayin' Alive" is perfect at 100 beats per minute, but there are lots of other therapeutic tunes out there.

New York-Presbyterian hospital has created a Spotify playlist with recommended up-tempo songs when needed. The list includes "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, "Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey and "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake. It also lists "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen, but we won't go there.

Alas, Neil Diamond's 1982 hit, inspired by the movie "E.T." didn't make the cut.

Body of Knowledge

The cartilage between our bones gets compressed by standing, sitting and other daily activities as the day goes on, making us typically about 1 centimeter (about one-third of an inch) shorter at the end of the day than at the beginning.

Get Me That, Stat!

According to the World Health Organization, 25 percent of deaths of kids under age five is attributable to pollution, primarily air, water and lack of sanitation. That mortality rate translates to 1.7 million children under age five every year.

Counts

39: Estimated percentage that breast cancer treatment could be reduced by better implementation of guidelines for radiation treatment

Source: Rachel Greenup/Journal of Oncology Practice

Stories for the Waiting Room

In a 2016 case study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, a Chinese man visited his doctor to complain of stomach pain, vomiting, loss of appetite and weight loss. An exam quickly revealed the reason: a 20-foot-long tapeworm living in his small intestine. The worm, which had been introduced as a parasite dwelling in consumed raw beef, had been there for at least two years. An antibiotic treatment discharged the worm within hours and symptoms cleared up a few months later.

Doc Talk

Agnostication: An alternative to prognostication, used to describe typically vain attempts to answer unknowable questions like "How long have I got, doc?"

Phobia of the Week

Koniophobia: fear of dust

Never Say Diet

The Major League Eating record for Mars Bars is 38 in 5 minutes, held by Patrick Bertoletti. Observers described the feat as "other-worldly."

Best Medicine

Q: What the blood type of a pessimist?

A: B-negative.

Observation

"More people live off cancer than die from it."

—Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra

Medical History

This week in 2000, a dwarf mouse named Yoda was born in the lab of Richard A. Miller, a genetics expert at the University of Michigan Medical School Geriatrics Center. Four years later, it was claimed Yoda was the world's oldest laboratory mouse produced without a low-calorie diet. A third smaller than an average mouse, Yoda lived with a larger female (Princess Leia) for protective body warmth. Yoda and her strain of mice were genetically modified to live longer, stay smaller and age more slowly than ordinary mice without dietary considerations. Yoda died April 22, 2004 at the age of four years and 12 days, more than twice the age of a normal mouse. It's said Yoda's age translated to roughly 136 human years.

Med School

Q: What do you call the smooth part of the forehead between the eyebrows?

A: The glabella, which derives from the Latin word glabellus, meaning smooth. It also refers to the underlying bone, which is slightly depressed and, according to Wikipedia, is a "cephalometric landmark just superior to the nasion." That's good to nose.

Last Words

"No."

—American inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922). Bell was lying on his deathbed when his deaf wife whispered to him, "Don't leave me." He responded by signing the word, "No."

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