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Children's school backpacks can cause problems

USA Today recently reported on the dangers of children carrying heavy backpacks to school...
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Chiropractic helps delayed speech in 7 year-old

A case study presented in the International Chiropractic Association Review reports that a case of acquired verbal aphasia...
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Baby walkers delay development

A report finds that babies subjected to baby walkers suffer delays in the development of...
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Chiropractic care safe for children

An article in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reports that...
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Tylenol changes label: warns of danger to children

The Associated Press reported on that the maker of Tylenol will change bottle labels and...
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DEA identifies dangerous drug use among children

United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) identified a drug as one increasingly subject to abuse by...
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Psychiatric drug use in children skyrockets

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of children prescribed psychiatric drugs...
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Children At Higher Risk For Medical Errors

The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that nearly one out of every 17 prescriptions...
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Number of US kids on behavioral drugs triples

The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports that the number...
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Hundreds Of Infant Deaths Occur Every Year From Drug Reactions

The journal Pediatrics reports that an average of 243 infant deaths occur each year from...
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Optimistic, hopeful teens less likely to use drugs

The students were tested for their individual levels of optimism (defined as positive feelings about one's future),...
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500,000 children given Prozac-like drugs

In a study presented at an annual meeting of the Pediatrics Academic Society, researchers concluded that about 500,000 children in...
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Resistant staph infections cause child deaths

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that a strain of the Staphylococcus aureus...
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Non-breastfed babies have higher risk for asthma

A study in an issue of the British Medical Journal found that babies who were fed milk other than breast milk experienced...
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Breast-fed babies have fewer fatal infections

The British journal Lancet reports that children who are breast-fed have a significantly lower mortality (death) rate from...
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Babies born just a few weeks too early at risk of death

A report in The Journal of the American Medical Association says that infants born 4 to 8 weeks early suffer a greater risk of...
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Pain in infancy increases pain sensitivity later in life

The journal Science reports that pain experienced by newborns (such as that from painful neonatal medical procedures...
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Dogs Decrease Risk Of Allergies In Infants

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reports that children who spend their first year of life in a household with a pet dog....
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Children’s Cancer Treatments Increase Cancer Risk

The International Journal of Cancer highlights a study that shows children with cancer who are treated with radiation...
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