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Here’s your opportunity to kick off the holiday season by doing something nice. Even the most time-strapped parents of toddlers can take the time to send a Christmas card to a little boy for what may be his last Christmas.
Five-year-old Noah Biorkman has been battling neuroblastoma cancer for two-and-a-half years. He was diagnosed with Stage [...]
Booster Seats Are Safer
The journal “Pediatrics” published the results of a study, conducted by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, confirming previous reports that it’s safer to keep children aged 4 through 8 in a booster seat during car travel.
The new study gives [...]
Groundbreaking medical research completed by a team at the Institute of Cancer Research, a college of the University of London, working in conjunction with researchers in Japan, discovered that certain cancer cells can cross the placenta of an afflicted mother-to-be into her unborn baby.
Such a link had been suspected previously, with about 17 cases of [...]
“I knew you’d gone a little crazy when you started complaining that ‘only’ 35 people are coming,” my friend said.
“Down from a guest list of 80, that’s a lot of cancellations!”
“And there’s your first problem.” He accentuated every syllable for effect. “You invited 80 people. To a first birthday party.”
Yes, I know my daughter, who [...]
In the United States, many doctors refuse to deliver a baby weighing more than 9 and a half pounds through a vaginal birth. Some midwives report delivering perfectly healthy 10-pound babies, naturally – it can be done.
But there was little question or debate that Ani, of Jakarta, Indonesia, would need a cesarean section to deliver [...]
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