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Children of Childhood Cancer Survivors Do Not have Increased Risk of Down Syndrome
If you are concerned about offspring you want to have after being a survivor of cancer as a child, you need to put your mind to rest. Recent...
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Alcohol and Drugs Affect 33% of Youth Today
A report published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has identified that more than 32% of American teenagers drink or use drugs. The study was...
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Teenage Smokers
Everyone knows that if you smoke it can damage your health. But how many people know that if you started smoking in your teens you have a 50%...
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Parents of Asthmatic Children Often Wait too Long to Treat Symptoms
A study recently published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, says that many parents leave it too late when it comes to treating...
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Depressed Kids May Have a Sweet Tooth
A new report published online in the journal Addiction by researchers from the Monell center suggests that the strength of the response to a strong...
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Shingles Symptoms
Most people know that Shingles is an infection of the skin and that it has something to do with chicken pox. However many do not know much more...
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Developmental Delays - Does Your Child Have Them?
Developmental delays refer to obvious laps in the physical, behavioral, social, mental, or emotional development of a child.  Since the...
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Children Being Prescribed Antibiotics Too Frequently
A recent study in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, produced by the CDC warns that antibiotics are being prescribed for colds and viral...
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Speedy Weight Gain in Infants can Foretell Childhood Obesity
A new Harvard study carried out by Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, and her colleagues has found that infants who gain weight quickest are the children...
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Parents Strongly Encouraged to Stop Chicken Pox Parties
Doctors and lawyers are urging parents not to participate in the current trend of ‘chicken pox parties.’  At these gatherings...

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