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Too Much TV Time in Home Day Care

Nov. 23, 2009 -- Children in home day care settings may get more TV time than they would in a center-based program, a new study indicates. The study, published in the Nov. 23 issue of the journal Pediatrics, says kids in home day care settings may watch TV up to two hours more than they would in a l
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Imagination Helps Tame Young Kids' Fears

Nov. 13, 2009 -- Your preschooler wakes up in the middle of the night, screaming there's a monster in the room. If you're like most parents trying to calm their children's fears, your first instinct is to say: "Monsters aren't real" and try to get your kid grounded in reality and back to sleep. But
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1 Million Maclaren Baby Strollers Recalled

Nov. 9, 2009 -- Maclaren USA and the Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced a voluntary recall of "about a million" Maclaren baby strollers because of the risk of fingertip amputation. Maclaren USA has gotten 15 reports of children placing their finger in the stroller's hinge mechanism,
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Expert Panel Recommends Sex Ed, Not Abstinence-Only

Nov. 6, 2009 -- There's no evidence that abstinence-only sexual education programs cut teens' risk of sexually transmitted disease, HIV, or pregnancy, a task force of public health experts finds. But the panel finds that sex ed that includes information about condoms and delaying sexual initiation
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Car Booster Seats Cut Injury Risk for Kids

Oct. 19, 2009 -- Booster seats with proper belt positioning significantly reduce the risk of injury in children aged 4 to 8 who are involved in traffic accidents, a new study shows. The research reinforces previous studies that booster seats are important in preventing injuries and saving lives. It
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Cancer Signs in Teens Often Overlooked

Oct. 9, 2009 -- About three years ago, Jay Wheeler, now 17, started having serious headaches and becoming increasingly forgetful. Over the next four months, he was sent to detention 52 times; the British youngster kept forgetting to ask his mother to sign the slip, earning another detention. Jay’s t
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Kids Who Get Spanked May Have Lower IQs

Sept. 24, 2009 -- Parents who spare the rod just might end up with smarter kids. Two new studies suggest that children who are spanked have lower IQs than children who aren't, regardless of where they live. In one study, researchers analyzed the intelligence scores of roughly 1,500 children in the U
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Too Much Time at Tanning Beds for Teens

Sept. 21, 2009 -- A new study shows most tanning bed operators don’t restrict teens’ access to indoor tanning beds during the first week of use as recommended by the FDA. The FDA recommends but does not require that indoor tanning bed operators limit teens to three or fewer tanning bed session in th
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Are You Driving Your Teen to Alcohol, Drugs?

Aug. 26, 2009 -- Teens who witness their parents tie one on are more likely to get drunk than teens who never see their parents imbibe, according to survey results released Wednesday at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Researchers from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
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P.E. Class Sending More Kids to the E.R.

Aug. 3, 2009 -- The number of students who end up in emergency rooms because of physical education class injuries has increased significantly since the late 1990s, according a new study. For the study, published in Pediatrics, researchers analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillanc
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