This report reminds us all that children are a source of labor in countries such as India and China.
Girls can be seen as an expense with the investment returns going to the families into which they marry.
Ultrasound scans can tell parents a baby’s gender. This story says that millions of couples have aborted a daughter, [...]

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This study examines the role of emotions in protecting or provoking heart disease in individuals. This study should prompt more work.

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Some times in diagnosis the answer is hidden in plain sight.
In the 1980s, before brain science became “hot,” Jon Franklin, one of the great science writers of his generation, told me, “One day we will learn that we are all a bunch of chemicals. You are three red, four blue and five yellow. I will [...]

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Jane E. Brody has more than 40 years of writing about health matters—often about food and nutrition.
When she raves about a book, readers will want to pay attention.
Do read her whole column about this new book. In light of the many food issues we are facing, a sound but simpler approach is welcome.
The New York [...]

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How many times have you grabbed a “tablespoon” out of the silverware drawer, poured the cough syrup in and swallowed? Maybe you got one tablespoon, as directed. Maybe you got one and one-half tablespoons. Maybe you got less.

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The findings reported below appeared in The European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
The research, conducted in Finland, used measurement tools developed by the team to assess burnout in parents and their ninth-graders, this story says.
Burnout was measured in the following ways:
1. Feeling “exhausted and overwhelmed” by work and school requirements.
2. “Feeling cynical” about work and school.
3. [...]

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As adults look around for holiday ideas, it is not hard to shop for a lot of little girls. Princess power! Princess-anything is big. It always has been big but somehow it is bigger than ever.

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Perhaps this is not going to bring joy to your household this season but it surely will mine.

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We posted this research when it first came out but this is the best, brief description of how loneliness spreads. The full story notes that loneliness also is a health hazard, so it is important to know how loneliness could be transmitted from one person to another—even people who do not know one another.
The research [...]

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Pet turtles have been banned by the federal government because they carry salmonella, which can be dangerous, especially to young kids. Now frogs have joined the warning list.

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