As you prepare for your Super Bowl party, make sure the televisions in your home are in safe locations and properly secured so they don't fall on children. Every 45 minutes, a child in the United States arrives at a hospital emergency ...
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Parents vary widely in views about their responsibilities in getting specialty care for their children, according to a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. Most children get their ...
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LAS VEGAS - Like kids in a candy store, buyers here have a smorgasbord of goodies to choose from in upholstery. Creamy butterscotch, cherry and cocoa leather are accenting contemporary frames in some showrooms. In others, vanilla-hued ...
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Infants and children who undergo heart transplantation are experiencing good outcomes after surgery and may expect to live beyond 15 years post-surgery with reasonable cardiac function and quality of life, according to a study released ...
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A Griffith University and Gold Coast Health program to help teenagers with diabetes better manage their condition has seen success on the Gold Coast. A joint collaboration between Griffith, Child, Youth and Mental Health Services, ...
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Teens who drink high-caffeine energy beverages such as Red Bull or Monster may be more likely to use alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, a new study suggests. The findings suggest that the same personality traits that attract kids to energy ...
More than half of babies and children who receive heart transplants are surviving many years, say the authors of a new study. Pediatric heart transplant patients are living 15 years and longer with good heart function, the scientists ...
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Tickets are now on sale for the 2014 Arkansas Flower and Garden Show Feb. 21-23 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The show, which benefits educational scholarships to Arkansas horticulture students and beautification ...
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Washoe one of nine winners nationwide The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today is presenting the 2014 Clean Air Excellence Award to the Washoe County Health District's Air Quality Management Division for their innovative work ...
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More than two dozen children from the Boys & Girls Club of Philadelphia received new bikes last week thanks to the efforts of 130 high-level executives from Axalta Coating Systems and the Odyssey Teams Life Cycles team-building program. The ...
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Driven by robust sales numbers, Brazil’s Cia Hering, which is engaged in the fashion industry, witnessed a healthy rise in net profit in the third quarter of 2013. The company, which is one of the largest retail and apparel ...
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FreemantleMedia reveals a raft of new licensees and promotional activity to coincide with the launch Vivid has launched the toy range for Strange Hill High at Toy Fair. To coincide with the launch, FreemantleMedia Kids & Family ...
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Both the Furby Boom and Furby 2012 made it into the NPD's top 10 best selling toys of 2013. Official NPD data has revealed that Hasbro's Furby Boom was the best selling toy of 2013. And the data made for happy reading for Hasbro as both ...
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Children understand numbers differently than adults. For kids, one and two seem much further apart then 101 and 102, because two is twice as big as one, and 102 is just a little bigger than 101. It's only after years of schooling that we're ...
Children around the world who grow up in dangerous neighborhoods exhibit more aggressive behavior, says a new Duke University-led study that is the first to examine the topic across a wide range of countries. Many U.S. studies have ...