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Children
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Reporter looks at black infant mortality in Wis.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s Crocker Stephenson took a look at disparities in infant mortality in that area and explored both…
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More antipsychotics prescribed to foster children
Need To Know, the PBS newsmagazine, recently took a look at the use of antipsychotics in foster children. Shoshana Guy’s…
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Program for disabled kids has unintended effects
Patricia Wen, of The Boston Globe, examines the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for children and finds the program “has…
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Researchers examine long-term effects of vitamins, vaccines on children’s immune systems
For a 40-minute documentary broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and produced by Anthony Baxter, reporter Richard Phinney visited a small,…
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BMJ: Wakefield’s vaccine-autism study fraudulent
The Internet and other media are abuzz with the news, published by BMJ yesterday, that the study published in The…
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Ind. station runs ‘canned’ story about Fla. boy
Jeremy Cox, medical reporter for the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union, calls our attention to a television report about a boy who…
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California law re-seals some child abuse autopsies
On the California Watch blog, Ryan Gabrielson reports that the state has partially reversed a SB 39, the 2008 ruling…
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School lunches, obesity and causality
Miller-McCune magazine’s Washington correspondent Emily Badger explains how a study found that the National School Lunch program is linked to…
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As school starts, so do youth sports injuries
The University of Michigan’s new Michigan NeuroSport Concussion Program seems to be cropping up everywhere, and as far as I…
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Report looks at oil-spill fallout for children, families
As the gulf oil spill dragged on, coverage of its psychological and economic aftermath gained momentum. Now, Poynter’s Al Tompkins…