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  • Study: 30% Teen Girls Admit Real-Life Meeting with Online "Stranger"

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 14
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    An alarming number of teenage girls may be risking their safety by meeting strangers through the Internet, new research shows.
    The study found about 30 percent of surveyed teen girls said they met a person in real life who they had previously met on...

  • Children’s Flu Medicine in Short Supply

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 11
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    As influenza cases surge around the country, health officials say they are trying to stem a shortage of treatments for children.
    Pharmacies around the country have reported dwindling supplies of liquid Tamiflu, a prescription flu medicine that can e...

  • Study: Some Children May Lose Autism Diagnosis with Age

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 17
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    Some children diagnosed with autism in early childhood may no longer have the disorder as they grow older, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
    "Although the diagnosis of autism is not usually lost over time, the findin...

  • Study Affirms Flu Shot Safe for Pregnant Women

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 17
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    A large study offers reassuring news for pregnant women: It's safe to get a flu shot.
    The research found no evidence that the vaccine increases the risk of losing a fetus, and may prevent some deaths. Getting the flu while pregnant makes fetal death...

  • Study: Crowded Vaccine Schedule for Babies Safe

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 17
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    It sounds plausible. The average baby gets 24 jabs in 24 months -- needle after needle piercing tender little thighs. Some get as many as five shots in a single doctor’s visit. Surely all this immune stimulation is overloading their little bodi...

  • Report: 22 Kids Die From Flu This Season

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 16
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    Twenty flu-related deaths have been reported in children so far this winter -- one of the worst tolls this early in the year since health officials began keeping track.
    Still, experts say that doesn't mean this year will turn out to be unusually dea...

  • 5-Year-Old Philadelphia Girl Found Safe After Being Abducted

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 15
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    A 5-year-old girl has been found after allegedly being abducted by a stranger from her classroom at a Philadelphia elementary school, where officials didn't learn of her disappearance until six hours later.
    Nailla Robinson was found early this morni...

  • Vaccine Court Awards Millions to Two Children With Autism

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 15
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    The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as "vaccine court," has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for "pain and suffering" and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of million...

  • Canola Oil May Be Used In U.S. Infant Formula

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 10
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    Canola oil is now generally recognized as safe for use as an ingredient in infant formula marketed in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made public that it has no questions in response to a notice that was filed ...

  • CDC: 1 in 5 High School Girls Binge Drink

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 9
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    Millions of high school-aged girls and women binge drink, behavior that can have disastrous results including long-term health effects, the CDC warns in a report released Tuesday.
    For females, binge drinking means consuming four or more drinks in on...