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- 1 First batches of swine flu vaccine are here
- MSNBCOctober 5, 2009"After much ballyhoo, vaccinations against the swine flu become available this week. But don't try to make that appointment just yet.This week's initial shipments to states are so small that, with a few...
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- October 5, 2009
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- 2 Parents clueless when it comes to kids' growth charts
- CNNSeptember 29, 2009"Parents can check out growth charts -- a nifty graph that tells them where their child falls in relation to peers in terms of height and weight -- just about everywhere, from a...
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- September 30, 2009
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- 3 Fat in middle age can cut women's lives short
- MSNBCSeptember 29, 2009"Being fat in middle age may slash women's chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says.American researchers observed more than 17,000 female...
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- September 30, 2009
Blogs: The Agony and The Ecstasy
- 4 Life/Work Balance: Stuck on Acupuncture
- It's a weird concept, acupuncture. I mean, getting pricked all over with tiny needles as a form of therapy? I'd be the first to say I don't enjoy the getting-pricked part, but I'm totally hooked...
- Posted by Alanna Stang, Executive Editor
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- September 29, 2009
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- 5 Probiotics: Looking Underneath the Yogurt Label
- The New York TimesSeptember 29, 2009 "When the label tells you the food you are buying “contains probiotics,” are you getting health benefits or just marketing hype? Perhaps a bit of both. Probiotics are live...
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- September 29, 2009
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- 6 Pregnancy Is No Time to Refuse a Flu Shot
- The New York TimesSeptember 29, 2009"Pregnant women are deluged with advice about things to avoid: caffeine, paint, soft cheese, sushi. Even when evidence of possible harm is weak or purely theoretical, the overriding caveat is,...
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- September 29, 2009
Blogs: Daily Find
- 7 Bottoms Up
- Part of a new baby line by best-selling author Dr. Andrew Weil, the Tritan drinking cup is BPA-free and specially designed to reduce colic and gas troubles. Five cool color combinations set it apart from...
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- September 29, 2009
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- 8 Drinking water unsafe at thousands of schools
- MSNBC September 28, 2009 "Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.An Associated Press...
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- September 28, 2009
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- 9 Most parents won't have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds
- Los Angeles TimesSeptember 27, 2009"Germ-spreading schoolchildren are expected to be the focus of a massive U.S. vaccination campaign against the novel H1N1 flu.But if their parents are hearing the rallying cry to have their kids...
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- September 28, 2009
Blogs: The Agony and The Ecstasy
- 10 The Pursuit of Pregnancy: Get Up, Stand Up
- My doctor's office recently sent me an invoice for $600. The procedures listed were about a month of visits, sonograms, and blood work. The amount kind of freaked me out. Like everyone else these days,...
- Posted by Joyce Bautista, Managing Editor
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- September 24, 2009
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- 11 Tylenol Recalls Child and Infant Liquids
- ABC NewsSeptember 24, 2009"The makers of Tylenol are voluntarily recalling more than 20 children's and infant's liquid products after bacteria was found in an "inactive ingredient" in products manufactured between April and June 2008.McNeil Consumer...
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- September 24, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 12 What's on Your Plate?
- If you live with foodies-in-training, check out What’s On Your Plate?, a documentary that follows two 11-year-old girls from Manhattan who go to the country, enjoy farm-fresh foods, and return to the city inspired to...
- Posted by Mireille Hyde
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- September 23, 2009
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- 13 Banking umbilical cord blood costs more than $1.3 million per added year of life
- Los Angeles TimesSeptember 23, 2009"Most parents-to-be weighing whether to save their newborn's umbilical cord blood for possible future use understand that such future use is unlikely. But some new numbers could put the matter in...
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- September 23, 2009
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- 14 FDA Bans Flavored Cigarettes
- The New York TimesSeptember 23, 2009"WASHINGTON — Federal health officials banned the sale of flavored cigarettes on Tuesday in the first major crackdown since the Food and Drug Administration was given the authority to regulate...
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- September 23, 2009
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- 15 New Light on the Plight of Winter Babies
- The Wall Street JournalSeptember 22, 2009"Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test poorly, don't get as far in school, earn less,...
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- September 22, 2009
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- 16 One Shot of Vaccine Can Protect Most Children
- The New York TimesSeptember 22, 2009"A single shot of swine flu vaccine appears to protect most children and teenagers nearly as well as it protects adults, federal health officials said Monday. Young children who have...
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- September 22, 2009
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- 17 Test Aims to Detect Flu Before Symptoms
- MSNBCSeptember 22, 2009"WASHINGTON - Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine — with a mere drop of blood — who will get influenza before the sniffling and fever set in. And they are...
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- September 22, 2009
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- 18 Michelle Gets Her Farmers Market
- The Washington PostSeptember 21, 2009"Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday...
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- September 21, 2009
Blogs: The Agony and The Ecstasy
- 19 The Relationship: Dental Duties
- Thanks to the fabulous--and highly motivating--story on kids' oral care in our September issue, I finally got my act together and booked a dental appointment for my 2 1/2-year-old son. I made it for a...
- Posted by Alanna Stang, Executive Editor
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- September 15, 2009
- 20 Human Growth Hormone Therapy
- The FDA's 1985 approval of growth hormone, combined with looser a definition of deficiency has resulted in a surge of HGH usage for children.
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- September 15, 2009
