“Wanna play a game?” It was Lisa Fletcher’s last-ditch effort to get her two young girls to bed one night…
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Tricycle injuries send thousands of tykes to ERs each year
Tricycles might seem pretty tame but they send thousands of kids to emergency rooms each year and are even linked…
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Infants judge people from their tone of voice
Experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto suggest that very young children make judgments about people based on…
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Child seats not compatible with cars 42 percent of time, study finds
For parents who’ve found themselves sticking rolled up blankets or a pool noodle under car seats to make them fit,…
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Family instability, stress tied to mental function for poor children
In a new study of low-income children in the U.S., those with more family instability and an emotionally unavailable mother…
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Medical marijuana laws don’t increase teen use, study suggests
Teen use of marijuana doesn’t seem to change when states pass laws legalizing the drug for medical purposes, a new…
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Paralyzed Virginia high school grad shocks crowd by walking to get diploma
Eighteen-year-old Parker Haller’s family wasn’t sure whether he’d walk again after suffering a severe spinal cord injury in a driving…
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Santa Barbara County infant dies from whooping cough
A newborn baby has died from whooping cough in Southern California — the fourth death in a year as the…
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Car seats are for traveling, not sleeping
In a new study of young child deaths in sitting devices like car seats, swings or bouncers, most were due…
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DNA sequencing project could lead to treatments for deadly childhood cancers
U.S. scientists announced the largest-ever release of comprehensive human cancer genome data on Tuesday, in a push to speed progress…
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