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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Researchers Fight Fat With Baby Formula

Introducing hormone in infancy
trims down rats, sparks controversy

Apr 23, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Blair Blames Crime Wave on
Black Culture

Stop 'pretending it's
not young black kids doing it,' PM says

Apr 12, 07 10:47 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Tony Blair • crime • children • black culture • black community • Britain • teenager

States Battle Over Stillborn Babies

Grieving parents are pitted against pro-choice advocates

Apr 10, 07 8:33 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Kids Get Graded on Obesity

Though Controversial, BMI Screenings for Children Increasingly Common

Apr 9, 07 12:08 PM CDT
(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 health issues early. But not all... More »

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obesity • health • childhood obesity • Body Mass Index • health screenings • fat • children • school • elementary school

Conjoined Twins Are Freed

Thai twins joined at
the heart and liver healthy after surgery separates them

Apr 6, 07 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pair of conjoined twins attached at the liver and the heart are alive and separate after a surgery Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital calls a "world first." The 10-month-old girls' hearts were joined at the atrium, and the blood flow was connected,  but the organs were not dependent... More »

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medicine • medical breakthrough • health • surgery • twins • Thailand • conjoined twins • science • children • baby • Bangkok

Depression Causes Preemies

Depression is more dangerous before the baby is born, researchers say

Apr 4, 07 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most new mothers with post-partum depression are ill long before their babies are born, the first study of clinical depression during pregnancy has found. The research, conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, shows that depression, triggered by a natural increase in stress hormones during pregnancy, is a "... More »

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medicine • pregnancy • post partum depression • health • depression • psychiatry • antidepressant • children • infant mortality • stress • baby • prescription

To Work Or
Not to Work?

Provocative book worries about women giving up good careers to be trophy moms

Apr 3, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The feminist generation gap gets a sharp appraisal in "The Feminine Mistake," the new book by Leslie Bennetts that questions why so many upscale young women are abandoning careers for children. Joan Walsh finds it a refreshing rebuttal to recent paens to motherhood, especially since Bennetts recognizes that ... More »

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gender • motherhood • families • feminism • Feminine Mistake • Joan Walsh • housewives • women • children • Leslie Bennetts • working mothers • career

Brit, K-Fed, Settle Their Split

The amateur rapper and the rehabbed pop princess' story comes to a quiet end

Mar 30, 07 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline settled their long-impending divorce  last night, reports MTV, after five hours of hashing it out with their lawyers. The fresh-from rehab pop star and her would-be rapper hubby setttled "all issues of their marriage and child custody" his lawyer said. More »

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entertainment • Britney Spears • rehab • divorce • families • Kevin Federline • children • celebrity

NYC Pays Kids To Go to School

Cash bonuses to poor families for attendance, grades, holding jobs

Mar 30, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget gold stars: poor New York City kids who attend class regularly or improve grades will get cash rewards. Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells the New York Times the program, which could net a low-income family up to $5,000 a year, is akin to sales bonuses in the private sector. More »

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education • families • New York City • children • Michael Bloomberg • school

Day Care Kids Learn to Act Up

Study finds preschoolers in day care

Mar 26, 07 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Day care centers enlarge kids' vocabularies--and teach them how to act up, too, says a study that’s followed 1,300 children from birth through 6th grade. Although parental guidance and genes were the strongest predictor of behavior, who attended day care as preschoolers were slightly more likely to be... More »

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education • child care • children • behavior • school • learning • daycare

ADD Meds Prescribed
For Weight Loss

Doctors are using Adderall for pediatric obesity, pleasing
parents but raising ethical alarms

Mar 23, 07 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pediatricians are giving Adderall, the pill that got America's kids to pay attention in class, to patients without ADHD but looking to shed extra pounds. One of the drug's side effects is appetite suppression, and "off-label" prescriptions are working for some chunky but otherwise normal teenagers. Parents worried about... More »

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obesity • medicine • ethics • ADHD • Adderall • health • children • weight loss • safety • doctor

POX
STRIKES
BACK

Chickenpox docs want second doses of vaccine—but some parents are resisting

Mar 20, 07 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors now recommend that kids get a second dose of chickenpox vaccine, but a lot of wary parents are balking. A recent study concluded that the longer patients had gone since getting the first dose, the more likely they were to contract the pox, and the more likely that it... More »

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health care • chickenpox • disease • children • Inoculation • vaccination • immunization • vaccine • doctor

Modern Moms Do More for Kids

Mar 20, 07 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Modern mothers spend more time with their children than those in the June Cleaver era, a new study concludes. Diaries compiled for the study show that, despite working more, today's moms spend less time on things like housework, leisure, and sleep to devote four more hours per week to interacting... More »

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motherhood • fatherhood • families • parenting • women • children • mothers

Quickie Adoption for Angelina

Vietnamese officials deny special treatment

Mar 14, 07 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vietnamese officials say the paperwork on Angelina Jolie's adoption is nearly complete—just days after it was submitted in early March. Vietnamese officials say their efficiency was spurred by the child's age and complete files and not by preferential treatment, but the speed up likely has a simpler explanation: anticipation... More »

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Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • adoption • Vietnam • families • Ethiopia • children • Cambodia

A Generation Is Lost to Violence

Palestinians coming of age have no jobs, no hopes, no agenda but resistance

Mar 12, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The generation of Palestinians now coming of age—and 56.4 percent of the population is under 19—have no hopes for peace, only of a lifetime of “resistance.”  Growing up through two intifadas, they are isolated from the world, divided amongst themselves, and surrounded by violence,... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Palestine • children • West Bank • US troops • violence • militant • gun violence

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