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  • June 2007

    • China to Mandate Booty-Shaking

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 5, 07 1:44 PM CDT

      China to Mandate Booty-Shaking

      (Newser) - The childhood obesity epidemic has found its way to China—and will stop there, if the government's new dance requirement has the desired effect. Starting in September, mandatory classes will get millions of schoolchildren off their butts and onto the dance floor. Experts are developing routines for the curriculum, which will gain new moves every two years. More »

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      China  • health  • children  • obesity  • childhood obesity  • dance

    • Nigeria Sues Pfizer Over Deadly Tests

      BBC  |  Jun 5, 07 12:35 PM CDT

      Nigeria Sues Pfizer Over Deadly Tests

      (Newser) - Nigeria is suing pharma giant Pfizer for $7 billion, claiming the company carried out improper trials on children. 200 children in the state of Kano died, and others developed deformities, after Pfizer tested Trovan, an experimental antibiotic, during a 1996 meningitis outbreak. Nigeria claims the tests were unauthorized, but Pfizer insists the company had consent. More »

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      children  • medicine  • Nigeria  • Pfizer  • pharma  • meningitis

    • Natalee's Mom, JonBenet's Dad Hook Up

      Fox News  |  Jun 4, 07 5:08 PM CDT

      Natalee's Mom, JonBenet's Dad Hook Up

      (Newser) - The father of slain pre-teen beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is dating the mother of missing Aruba tourist Natalee Holloway. Fox News broke the romance today, offering its detail-hungry viewers only that the bereaved pair met at a fundraiser and have "been spotted openly holding hands and kissing" in Alabama. More »

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      murder  • children  • kidnapping  • parents  • Natalee Holloway  • JonBenet Ramsey

    • Publisher Fights Lefty Bias in Kids' Lit

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 1, 07 8:34 PM CDT

      Publisher Fights Lefty Bias in Kids' Lit

      (Newser) - A California publishing exec is doing his darnedest to combat the insidious leftward tilt of most children's books. Fed up with gay penguins and anti-business Loraxes, Eric Jackson started his own publishing house. His first release, "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!"—about a kids' lemonaid stand taxed out of business—was a surprise hit. More »

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      children  • book  • publishing  • reading  • Children's books

  • May 2007

    • Hospitals Build 'Womb Rooms' for Preemies

      New York Times  |  May 29, 07 5:36 PM CDT

      Hospitals Build 'Womb Rooms' for Preemies

      (Newser) - With preterm births soaring—and tinier preemies surviving—many hospitals are redesigning their neonatal units to provide environments closer to those babies experience in utero, the New York Times reports. The new rooms are darker and quieter, and provide space for skin-to-skin contact with parents (not to speak of places for parents to sleep). More »

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      children  • family  • baby  • infant  • development  • womb  • preemies

    • Racial Generation Gap Opens

      New York Times  |  May 17, 07 2:54 PM CDT

      Racial Generation Gap Opens

      (Newser) - The number of non-white Americans has passed 100 million—a third of the current population—for the first time, the Census Bureau reports, and the growing minority population is creating a new racial generation gap. Hispanics had the lowest median age at 27.4, while the median age of whites, 40.5, was the highest reported. More »

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      children  • race  • elderly  • America  • age  • population  • voters  • Hispanic  • baby boomer  • Census Bureau  • census  • generation gap  • minority

    • School Bullying Victim Awarded $800K

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  May 14, 07 5:46 PM CDT

      School Bullying Victim Awarded $800K

      (Newser) - An 18-year-old Australian is over $800,000 richer today after a court ruled that his life was "all but destroyed" by school bullying. Australia's Supreme Court said the public school system "grossly failed" Ben Cox when it didn't stop an older student from repeatedly physically and verbally abusing him in kindergarten and first grade. More »

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      children  • Australia  • teenagers  • school  • elementary school  • bullying

    • Use of Antipsychotics For Kids Soars

      New York Times  |  May 10, 07 10:23 AM CDT

      (Newser) - The Times tackles the growing use of antipsychotic drugs in children, contentious because the drugs are risky and have no approved use for minors. But the trend is also questionable because it coincides with increasing payments to psychiatrists by the companies that market the drugs. In Minnesota, these payments rose sixfold from 2000 to 2005. More »

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      children  • medicine  • safety  • drug companies  • psychiatry  • antipsychotic drugs

    • Preschool Kids Get Socked In the Mouth

      Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  |  May 1, 07 11:00 AM CDT

      Preschool Kids Get Socked In the Mouth

      (Newser) - Young children are developing more cavities in their baby teeth than kids were a decade ago, the CDC reported yesterday, a worrisome development that reverses a 40-year trend. Preschool children—"thousands and thousands of kids," in the words of one researcher—were the only age group in which the incidence of tooth decay increased. More »

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      health  • children  • obesity  • childhood obesity  • preschool  • teeth

  • April 2007

    • Researchers Fight Fat With Baby Formula

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 23, 07 3:18 PM CDT

      Researchers Fight Fat With Baby Formula

      (Newser) - The battle to keep pounds off may start with a baby bottle, say a team of British scientists who found that feeding large doses of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin to baby rats led to svelte adult rats. If those results translate to humans, a baby formula that chemically alters metabolism might someday prove the end of obesity. More »

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      health  • children  • obesity  • diabetes  • baby  • research  • childhood obesity

    • Blair Blames Crime Wave on Black Culture

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 12, 07 10:47 AM CDT

      Blair Blames Crime Wave on Black Culture

      (Newser) - Black culture is responsible for a recent rash of teenage murders in Britain, Tony Blair said yesterday in a burst of un-PC criminology that outraged black leaders. The violence, which has killed seven teens in recent weeks, won't let up unless Britons stop “pretending it is not young black kids doing it," Blair said. More »

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      Great Britain  • crime  • children  • teenagers  • Tony Blair  • black community  • black culture

    • States Battle Over Stillborn Babies

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 10, 07 8:33 AM CDT

      States Battle Over Stillborn Babies

      (Newser) - Parents of stillborn babies are pitted against pro-choice advocates in an emotional battle over initiatives in seven states to issue birth certificates for their children, reports the Chronicle . Parents want recognition of their loss; abortion advocates want to avoid a precedent that might be used to claim an unborn fetus is already a child . More »

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      California  • children  • abortion  • family  • state governments  • pro choice  • pro life  • California legislature

    • Kids Get Graded on Obesity

      Philadelphia Inquirer  |  Apr 9, 07 12:08 PM CDT

      Kids Get Graded on Obesity

      (Newser) - School nurses in six states are now sending out "obesity report cards,"  giving parents the results of mandatory Body Mass Index screenings of their children. With the number of overweight kids quadrupling over the last 40 years, advocates aim to detect h