Stefanie Zucker is President and co-founder of Paediatric Medical Devices and Managing Director and co-founder of Axios Partners, a strategy consulting firm. After a number of years spent researching the safety issues associated with transporting children on ambulances, she became a child health safety advocate and formed Paediatric Safety - a community for everyone who cares about the health and welfare of children.
Stefanie Zucker
Recent Posts
You Tube – Safe Viewing For Your Child
YouTube – Adding Child Safety to the Menu With millions of videos on YouTube, keeping your child safe from inappropriate videos has been a major challenge. There’s a significant amount of sexual content and violence…in fact, typing in the....
Text 4 Baby
Over the past few years the rate of US infant mortality has been rising. More than 500,000 babies are born premature and around 28,000 children die in the very first year of their birth – sobering statistics for a country with such advanced medica....
Developmental Milestones
First Year Developmental Milestones: Learn the Signs…Act Early Have you ever wondered how your child is growing and developing compared to other children of the same age? It wouldn’t be unusual if you have. Skills such as taking a first step, s....
Swine Flu – Real World Answers Part II
Swine Flu for Parents: Real World Answers – Part II In our last post we walked you through what we hope was everything you needed to know about the virus in general: how to recognize symptoms, avoid the virus and take care of your kids if they....
Swine Flu -Real World Answers
Swine Flu for Parents: Real World Answers – Part I As early as late September for Australia and early October for the US and Canada, the very first doses of swine flu vaccine started to arrive in doctor’s offices. These doses however arrived in....
Turn Off The Television
Do we turn off the TV until they reach 2? We don’t think anything of it. Television is such a normal part of our lives that many of us don’t think twice about leaving it on in the background. And truth be told, it can be incredibly useful – wh....
Sugar Makes Kids Hyper – Fact or Fiction?
Sugar makes kids hyper: fact or fiction “Wait an hour after eating before going swimming.” “Don’t go out in the rain or you’ll catch a cold…” We’ve all heard these before…mostly because our parents told them to us…but who told ....
Booster Seats: Are they Old Enough? Tall Enough?
Beginning October 7th 2009, Ohio’s new booster seat law requires all children 4-8 years old or up to 4 feet 9 inches tall to be in a booster seat. Most US states have passed similar laws…as have many other countries. (New boost to child safety se....