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Pediatricians revise thinking on screen time; ditch ban for kids under 2 To adjust to our digital world, the American Academy of Pediatrics rebooted its thinking on children's media use Friday by giving parents considerably looser recommendations than those of the past.
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Pediatricians Say Kids As Young As 18 Months Can Learn From TV, Apps, But Adults Still Need To Help You might not like to admit it, but if you're a parent, you've probably used television as a babysitter or an iPad as a toy–and not only once or twice.
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Digital devices OK even for toddlers, doctors say Digital devices are not inherently harmful to children and can often be used for good, pediatricians said Friday in a change from earlier guidance.
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GSK seeks US approval for shingles vaccine Shingrix LONDON Oct 24 GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday it had filed its shingles vaccine Shingrix for U.S. regulatory approval, bringing the potential blockbuster a step closer to market.
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Banning Tablets Is Best for Children A funny thing happened when I banned tablets in my house on weekdays and curtailed their use on weekends. My children, ages 6 and 4, became less cantankerous.
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Updated guidelines on infant sleep highlight danger of parents' tiredness The American Academy of Pediatrics updated its advice on how to prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths in a policy statement released Monday.
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I thought I had a kidney stone, but I was really having a baby A Georgia woman knew she was going to have a laborious evening at the hospital when she doubled over in pain with what she thought was a kidney stone - but that pain turned out to be a baby.
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Keep baby in parents' bedroom -- but in separate bed, pediatricians say Children's health experts today issued updated safe sleeping guidelines that emphasize the importance of a baby sleeping in the same room - but not the same bed - as the mother.
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New York Mother Holds Previously Conjoined Baby Boy for First Time Nicole McDonald holds her previously conjoined son Jaden for the first time on Oct. 23, 2016. (Montefiore Medical Center via CNN).
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Baby 'born twice' doing well after miracle surgery Lynlee Boemer was 'born twice' after doctors removed a tumour from her tailbone. Credit: Paul Vincent Kuntz/Texas Children's Hospital.
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Metastatic breast cancer patient wants more action ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY OCT. 23 AND THEREAFTER - In an Oct. 6, 2016 photo, Jennifer Cooper, 34, leans against her cane inside her home in Big Lake, Texas.
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Meet the baby who was born twice PLANO, Texas (CNN) - Margaret Boemer went for a routine ultrasound 16 weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. She quickly found out that things were far from routine.
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Sawyer Point glows pink during annual Strides Against Cancer Walk About 4,000 women and their supporters made strides against breast cancer in a celebration of sisterhood and survival, cheering on the many still in the fight.
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'Like something out of a horror movie': Flesh-eating bacteria infection kills man in four days About 80,000 people get some form of vibriosis every year, usually from eating raw or undercooked shellfish, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Past treatment of mentally ill a 'study in neglect' A row of numbered graves at the cemetery of the abandoned Kansas State Mental Hospital in Osawatomie. There are only two marked graves in this cemetery, while the rest are simply numbers.
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Sheriff's Office: 6 Heroin Overdoses In Anoka Co. In 12 Hours MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Authorities in Anoka County say there were an "alarming" number of heroin overdoses in the area Saturday.
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Hillary Clinton's faith in Roe v Wade "Secretary Clinton, I want to explore how far you believe the right to abortion goes," asked Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace, moderator for the third and final presidential debate.
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India needs to talk about mental illness At least 13.7 per cent of India's general population has various mental disorders; 10.6 per cent of them require immediate interventions.
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Term And Partial Birth Abortions: The Mythical Arch-Nemeses Of The Anti-Choice Movement Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court building as arguments on Nebraska's partial birth abortion law are heard before the court.
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Two dead in six separate Anoka County heroin overdose cases Saturday A wave of heroin overdoses in just a 12-hour period Saturday in or near Anoka County left two people dead and four others taken to hospitals, one of them in critical condition.
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Making Strides 3K Walk More than 1,000 people registered for Sunday's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 3K walk at Cascades Park, many of whom were supporting loved ones in the fight with breast cancer.
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For Kansas police, handling mental illness a matter of training Florida Judge Steve Leifman is a major proponent of transforming the way the criminal justice system deals with individuals with mental illness.
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Sexually transmitted diseases surge in California This 1975 microscope image made available by the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria magnified 200X.
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Backers hope ND pot measure will bring relief for patients; police say law isn't tough enough Sheri Paulson of Galesburg helped gather signatures to get the medical marijuana measure on the North Dakota ballot. She suffers from multiple sclerosis and has been told that medical marijuana could help her pain.
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Kansas' treatment of those with mental illness was a 'study in neglect' decades ago Well into the 20th century, courts, not clinicians, committed people with mental disorders to state hospitals, where too often they were warehoused and received little if any meaningful treatment.
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Dogs Dream about Their Owners, Harvard Expert Says We have seen our pets sleeping at night. So, we logically assume they are dreaming about something. Are they dream of bones, chasing rabbit or cat or anything else?
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Authorities Investigating Wave Of Anoka County Heroin Overdoses MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Anoka County authorities are investigating what they call an "alarming" wave of heroin overdoses from this weekend.
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New statistics highlight the need to tackle the heroin epidemic head-on "The year is not over yet and already we have surpassed the number of heroin deaths that happened in 2015. Forty-six people have lost their lives as opposed to 44 in 2015.
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Now, study finds a way to reduce jet lag Reducing oxygen levels in an aeroplane cabin may help combat jet lag in travelers, suggests a new study which found that variation in oxygen levels can reset circadian clocks of mice and help them adapt eating, sleeping and running habits to the new ...
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North Dakota among states to decide on medical marijuana FARGO, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota voters will decide next month whether to legalize marijuana for medical use by siding either with opponents who say sciences is on their side or with supporters like a desperate grandmother who illegally purchased the ...
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How drugs intended for patients ended up in the hands of illegal users: 'No one was doing their job' Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain lie on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, CT. By The Washington Post.
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With Teal Pumpkin Project, Halloween gets less tricky for allergic kids Back in 2012, a Tennessee mom named Becky Basalone had an idea: What if Halloween could be made a little less tricky for kids with food allergies?
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Exclusive–Rep. Blackburn: Women Should Know Hillary Clinton Paid Women Less than Men for Same Jobs A Tennessee congresswoman told Breitbart News Saturday she is frustrated more Americans, especially women, are not aware that Democratic nominee for president Hillary R. Clinton has not practiced equal pay for equal work.
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Teal Pumpkin Project brings light to trick or treat options GLENDALE, MO. - For the second year in a row, a Glendale neighborhood is participating in the Teal Pumpkin Project. Meghan Winegrad organized the event for her neighborhood and says that about 80 homes plan to participate.
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Man's Best Friend, Dogs, Might Also Be Dreaming About You Beacon Transcript - Man's best friend is the common appellative for dogs, but it may, in fact, be closer to the truth than we thought as scientists discover that dogs might actually be dreaming about their owners.
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Pediatric vaccination updates: The latest news physicians should know SAN FRANCISCO - Following a meeting last week in which the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice approved several updates to its 2016-17 vaccination guideline, Joseph A. Bocchini Jr.
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This election driving you crazy? Poll finds you aren't alone According to a new poll from the American Psychological Association, more than half of American adults are stressed about the election, regardless of party affiliation.
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Detroit Issues Warning On Hepatitis A Scare Linked To Local Whole Foods Detroit health authorities have linked two positive cases of hepatitis A in the city to the prepared foods section of a Whole Foods Market on Mack Avenue.
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Legal team blasts Obama abortion-funding scheme Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists.
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Why you should take advantage of Medicare's open enrollment period It is that time of year again when U.S. Medicare beneficiaries can make changes to their existing health-insurance plans or enroll as new clients during open enrollment period, and experts say not enough people are taking advantage of the opportunity.
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Oxygen is key to circadian rhythms and might cure jet lag Researchers from Israel have found that oxygen is a vital component to the circadian rhythm, the internal clock that allows the body's cells to work in unison at different times of the day.
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