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Children
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Study: C. diff. on the rise among children
A study published in the April 2010 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases finds the incidence of Clostridium difficile appears to…
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CDC: Nearly 1 percent of U.S. kids have autism
An average of one in 110 children have an autism spectrum disorder, according to a new study of the health…
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Medicaid kids more likely to get antipsychotics
New York Times reporter Duff Wilson reports on federally funded research that has revealed that children covered by Medicaid are…
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AP finds contaminated water in schools
The Associated Press has analyzed a decade of Environmental Protection Agency data and found that tests at thousands of American…
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EPA never tested playground material’s safety
Andrew Schneider reports on a investigation by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility that found the EPA, in…
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Pesticide clouds a risk for children in farming areas
The Los Angeles Times‘ Amy Littlefield reports on children, in this case in California’s San Joaquin Valley, who are sprayed…
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Available data on children falls short
David Crary of the Associated Press writes about weak, outdated and insufficient data in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual…
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Pentagon: War takes toll on soldiers’ children too
USA Today‘s Gregg Zoroya reports the results of a Pentagon survey of more than 13,000 active-duty soldiers and their spouses…
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A painful picture of rare childhood mental illness
The Los Angeles Times’ Shari Roan tells the story of a 6-year-old girl suffering from a rare – perhaps even…
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22 percent of kids’ hospital visits sports related
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has sifted through the numbers in the 2006 report “Sports Injuries in Children…