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Halloween trick-or-treating can quickly turn into a nightmare for kids having food allergies.

The advocacy group Food Allergy Research and Education last year launched the Teal Pumpkin Project all over the country. Households from all 50 states and 7 countries participated in the project.

The Mexico, Missouri, speech therapist said that the Teal Pumpkin Project tries to make the holiday fun for children, who have food allergies. She mentioned that the project can make them more sensitive to it by taxing the immune system.

That also included Zawadski, the one who said that she liked the teal pumpkins and what is represented by them.

A new study has revealed the most common OR error. The first-ever research for measuring medical errors in the perioperative period (immediately before, during and after a surgical procedure) has discovered that in every other operation a mistake is made.

During the researcher, over 275 procedures undertaken at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) were analyzed by the paper’s researchers. They discovered that a third of the errors resulted in patients being harmed.

They found that the most common mistakes made were wrong dosages being administered, symptoms indicated by vital signs of a patient going without untreated and medication labeling mistakes.

Americans have a 120-year-old bond with hot dogs. Whether it is a celebration or a normal day, they can’t ignore the sausage. The story is not over yet as vegetarian hot dogs could also have human DNA in them. A new study has revealed that Clear Food, which is a subsidiary of Clear Labs, has found human DNA in hot dogs. About 2% sampled hot dog and sausage brands were found having human DNA, as per the study.

The study also reported that more than 60% samples with human DNA were promoted as vegetarian, and about 15% samples were found containing ingredients that were not even on the label.

As football involves rough game play, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has decided to protect brain and bodies of young players from injuries during a game. The professional association of pediatricians released some guidelines to protect players from sports-related injuries.

In the past, a number of players have reported about experiencing brain trauma for a long time. Now, the association is hopeful that the new guidelines will protect children and young players from long-term brain injuries. According to AAP, the guidelines are supported by evidence to prevent injuries.

Dr. William P. Meehan III from the Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital said pediatricians are working hard to bring evidence to the decision-making process.

Just 2,500 adult snow leopards are now left in the wild. Such short number has led the World Wildlife Fund to raise concerns. It has unveiled that climate change is the main reason for causing threat to snow leopards.

Experts shared that habitat of snow leopards is spread over 12 central Asian countries. If climate change’s severity level will increase then local communities will be forced to shift up the mountains, where there is snow leopard territory. These changes will make snow leopards to adjust in new human settlements.

A great news for space gazers as planets Jupiter, Mars and Venus will appear close to each other in the sky on Monday. In fact, later this week as well the planets will be visible in the same view early in the morning sky.

On Monday morning, both the planets- Jupiter and Venus will be present close to each other and then Mars will join them. Through the week, it will appear that all the three planets are getting closer and a forming a small triangle in sky on early Wednesday morning.

Your excitement level is going to jump number of times once you will get to know that there is no need for viewing aids, like binocular or telescopes, to see these planets. To use the astronomers terminology, this planetary conjunctions, will be one of the brightest in the recent times.