In California, an 8-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister. Sgt. Charlie Spruill from the Wacaville Police said "It's a tragic case of a sibling who picked up a firearm, thinking it was a...
Updates have been made to the 2009 Immunization Schedules for children and adolescents, which were jointly released by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American...
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Past studies have shown that family meals provide many benefits, including offering a venue for parents to communicate with their adolescents about their daily activities, as well as monitor their moods and whereabouts."Parents who have regular meals with their adolescent...
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So I have a friend (he shall remain anonymous) who has a HUGE smoking problem. Everytime we hang out, he would either waste time to go buy some cigarettes, or take 5minutes off from whatever we were doing to...
" The Israeli “haaretz” newspaper is considered as the ‘newspaper for thinking people ’. So I looked with some suspicion and disbelief at the headline “X-Men mutant survives the...
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The US government widely promotes the abstinence-only approach, but new evidence shows that might not be the wisest plan."NEW YORK - Comprehensive sex education that includes discussion of birth control may help...
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"Chickens - Experts say the danger is the virus may evolve into a form that people can easily catch and pass to one another, in which case the transmission rate would soar, causing a pandemic in which millions of...
"“Some men enjoy playing with dogs, some with women. I enjoy playing with boys,” said Allah Daad, a one-time mujahedin commander in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz."
The recent history of Afghanistan...
One In Ten Children Have
A Mental Health Disorder
By J. P. Anderson
One in ten children have a mental health disorder to a "clinically significant" level, new research suggests.
Studies carried out by leading children's charity NCH found a 100 per cent increase in...
The neighborhood an adolescent lives in may influence his or her development of obesity, new study findings suggest. Specifically, investigators found that adolescents from close-knit neighborhoods were less likely to be obese.
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