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    Childhood Sports Related Concussion Visits To Emergency Rooms Tripled In Ten Years

    The number of child-athletes taken to emergency rooms (emergency departments) with concussion in the USA more than tripled, from 7,000 cases in 1997 to nearly 22,000 in 2007, according to an article published in the medical journal Pediatrics. The authors believe this is due to a greater...
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    BBC Reports On Efforts To Broaden Access To Childhood Vaccines

    The BBC reports on discussions about childhood immunization at the International Pediatric Association (IPA) meeting last week in Johannesburg, South Africa. "Vaccines are a key plank in meeting Millennium Development Goal 4 - to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015 - and many sessions...
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    Childhood Memories Of Father Have Lasting Impact On Men's Ability To Handle Stress

    Sons who have fond childhood memories of their fathers are more likely to be emotionally stable in the face of day-to-day stresses, according to psychologists who studied hundreds of adults of all ages. Psychology professor Melanie Mallers, PhD, of California State University-Fullerton presented...
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    Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors May Face Strength And Fitness Challenges As They Age

    A large study focused on documenting the strength and fitness of childhood brain tumor survivors has found that many face health challenges as they age. The study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators showed that although most participants were young adults in their 20s...
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    Childhood Shrimp Casserole Recipe?

    My grandmother made it a few times when i was a child she'd gotten it from a local noon tv show. The Chef was Man who may or may not have been Mr Food. This Casserole Left a Lifetime Impression on me I've been trying to duplicate forever and while its always good it's Never the Same. This...
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    Radiotherapy During Childhood Increases Risk Of Stillbirths And Baby Death For Offspr

    The risk of stillbirth or neonatal death among the offspring of women who had survived childhood cancer and had received radiation therapy (radiotherapy) when they were children, is higher compared to other women, says a report published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancer. Thanks to...
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    Isn't it sad to watch your childhood sporting hero descend into decay and death?

    We've seen it so much. Ageing heroes who start to lose their form. In my generation, that is Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Theirry Henry, Adriano. To witness French football descend into madness, and Brazilian styles move away from Joga Bonito truely saddens me. Diego Maradonna is the prime example of...
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    Have you have read LAMB: The gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood pal?

    How many of you found it enjoyable, and entertaining? Did you find any insights into your faith? Although it is written as a humorous novel, there are several passages which can be interpreted as meaningful for your faith. One of them is when Biff gets tossed overboard and is about to drown...
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    AAP Press Statement On White House Task Force On Childhood Obesity Report

    By: Judith S. Palfrey, MD, FAAP, President, American Academy of Pediatrics "The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) commends the Task Force on Childhood Obesity for producing a thoughtful, comprehensive report on recommendations to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in our nation. The...
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    IBM To Analyze Best Way To Cut Childhood Obesity

    The Wall Street Journal: IBM "will put computer models to work analyzing the reams of available data on the different factors that might affect obesity - things such as consumer behavior, the location of grocery stores, the availability of physical activity facilities and even community...
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    New Online Training - Early Childhood Oral Health: Case Studies From General Practice

    Early childhood oral health management skills are the focus of a new online learning activity from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). The new activity, available on the gplearning website, is called Early childhood oral health: case studies from general practice and...
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    New Online Training - Early Childhood Oral Health: Case Studies From General Practice

    Early childhood oral health management skills are the focus of a new online learning activity from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). The new activity, available on the gplearning website, is called Early childhood oral health: case studies from general practice and...
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    Speech-Language Experts To Confer About Early Childhood Development Issues

    Administrators and faculty from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at the Seton Hall University School of Health and Medical Sciences will gather with fellow speech, language, and hearing professionals in Atlantic City, N.J., May 6-8 for the New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing...
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    recurring dream (since childhood)?

    the dream itself is fairly odd.. and yesterday was the first time it has every been different even in the slightest detail. and it changed dramatically. the dream itself is hard for me to fully remember, but i got the general idea about it, its my (with some odd number of other people...
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    Some Help please! Anyone Interested in sharing ur childhood story with me? Since...

    ...u were born til the age of 20? Time is fast, Let go back and think what has happened in the past years, I love reading your true stories in different life. If possible you can write your story to my e-mail [email protected] Thanks
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    Childhood Obesity Prevention Should Begin Early In Life, Possibly Before Birth

    Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought - perhaps even before birth - especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1,826 women from pregnancy through their children's first five years of life. Most obesity prevention...
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    Three household habits may help trim childhood obesity

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    Is 2 Years Old A Childhood Obesity Tipping Point?

    While many adults consider a chubby baby healthy, too many plump infants grow up to be obese teens, saddling them with Type-2 diabetes, elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure, according to an article published this month in the journal Clinical Pediatrics (published by SAGE). The research...
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    Is 2 Years Old A Childhood Obesity Tipping Point?

    While many adults consider a chubby baby healthy, too many plump infants grow up to be obese teens, saddling them with Type-2 diabetes, elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure, according to an article published this month in the journal Clinical Pediatrics (published by SAGE). The research...
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    Is 2 Years Old A Childhood Obesity Tipping Point?

    While many adults consider a chubby baby healthy, too many plump infants grow up to be obese teens, saddling them with Type-2 diabetes, elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure, according to an article published this month in the journal Clinical Pediatrics (published by SAGE). The research...
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