Child Health

Experience: I hope I'm here for Christmas

'I've been on the transplant list for more than two years' My mum already had two healthy daughters, so when I was born 22 years ago she felt something must be wrong with me because I was always sick and underweight. The GP...

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Babies and Young Children to get Swine Flu Vaccine

Following the decision in October to include all pregnant women in the first priority list for the swine flu vaccine, it has now been decided that all small children should be included in the second wave of vaccinations....

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Childhood vaccine cost to drop next year

Cheaper price means an extra 6.3 million kids globally will get vaccinated HANOI, Vietnam - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday....

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Palin on Trig: 'How Would I Handle This?'

's very public persona as the former Republican vice presidential candidate, the self-described "hockey mom" from Wasilla, Alaska, is above all mother of five: Track, 20, who is in the Army and recently returned from Iraq;...

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Child asthma, mother's depression linked

BALTIMORE, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Maternal depression may aggravate a child's asthma but how often a child had symptoms did not seem to affect the mother's symptoms, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's...

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Mayfield holds sizable auction, helps raise legal funding

Jeremy Mayfield talks to would-be buyers about a Dodge Viper up for auction on his property. CATAWBA, N.C. (AP) — Jeremy Mayfield (FSY) sat in the back of his large barn Friday morning about 800 miles from where NASCAR's...

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Women giving birth at home without midwives

When Jennifer Margulis went into labor with her fourth child, she sent her husband off to take the kids to school, then waited at home for her body to do what she felt confident it had evolved over millions of years to do on...

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20/20: Sarah Palin on Trig: 'I Thought, God ... How in the World Would I Handle This?'

Former Alaska Governor's Daughter Willow Tells Barbara Walters: 'We Didn't Find Out He Had Down Syndrome Till the Day He Was Born' By ALAN B. GOLDBERG and KATIE N. THOMSON Behind Sarah Palin's very public persona as the former...

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Tips for smart, healthy holiday travel

As if traveling with the kids over the holidays weren't tough enough, this year we must contend with airline surcharges and swine flu, as well as all the usual annoyances and delays that go along with traveling -- especially...

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Bare-foot doctors bring gift of life in China's child vaccine chain

by Xinhua writers Tian Ying and Li Jingya BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- In rural China, parents have traditionally called their newborns inappropriate names, such as Doggy, Smelly or Fool, in the belief that it will confer long...

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