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Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, JPA for short, is a brain tumor, the most common brain tumor in children. Roughly 600 children each year are diagnosed with JPA, but unfortunately the most common brain [...]
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President Bush extends child health program
President Bush signed a temporary extension of the State Children?s Health Insurance Program known as SCHIP. The program provides health coverage for about 6.6 million uninsured children. To be eligible, they have to be age 19 or under and from low to moderate income families that do not qualify [...]
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Studies show benefits of yoga
Two separate studies were published recently showing the multiple benefits of yoga. The word yoga comes from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit and means ?a bringing together of the parts in order to create a union or balance of a person?s body, mind and spirit.?
In Bikaner, India, Dr. R.P. Agrawal, [...]
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Morning Sickness 101 (Part 2)
When you?re suffering from morning sickness you learn a thing or two you?d never thought you?d need to know.
Tip Number 6: It?s better to throw up in the sink than the toilet.
Bending over at the waist when pregnant to send tuna back from which it came can make you very [...]
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Thirteen Ways to Make Car Trips Less Painful
Driving with your baby in the car can be a trial sometimes. Even if your baby seems to love car rides, there may come a day when there?s incessant crying or screaming.
Here are some tips to make the trips a little less bumpy.
1. Make sure your baby [...]
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Make Your New Year?s Resolution a Lifestyle Change
The new year is a fantastic time. It is like starting out with a clear slate. Everything is new and you feel like you can do anything. You sit down and make a list of all the things that you are going to change. This new year [...]
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New mom, new blogger
There?s so much I want to blog about, being a writer who thinks the world cares about what I have to say?and being a new mom who is dying to reach out to other new moms?but I wanted to introduce myself first. Why would you care about my views on c0-sleeping [...]
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Father knows best, too
Since it?s my husband?s birthday, and since I insist on being right on things about 99% of the time, I thought it would be a nice gift to mention one of the times when I was (gasp!) wrong?and how it?s good for new moms to remember that dads are parents, [...]
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New Year Celebrations With Kids
Remember New Year?s Eve, before kids? I actually birthed a child 11 minutes after midnight on New Year?s Day 1999. Now that was a holiday to remember! That next year, I realized how close Christmas and New Year?s Day really are!
You remember?how the world was preparing for doomsday for Y2K? [...]
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Nicole Kidman is pregnant!
After two adopted children with first husband Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman has disclosed her first pregnancy to close friends. News of the pregnancy broke on London?s Daily Mail but was reportedly denied by Kidman?s publicist and Fox News? Roger Friedman, who writes with certitude and authority owing to his own close [...]
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