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Obese Kids 63% More Likely to Be Bullied than Average-Weight Classmates
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How Can a Doctor Choose Medications for Patients Without Data Comparing New Ones to Existing Ones? Half of the Time, They Don’t Have That
Sex Research Review: WSJ Columnist Tells You What’s What
Watch Out for Diet Used by Mother of Bride for Royal Wedding
Victims and Bullies Spend More Time with School Nurses, Study Says
Would You Spend All You Had to Buy Time If You Had Cancer? See Who Would or Wouldn’t
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Catholic Church Launches Investigation of Every Nun in U.S., Many of Whom Are Care-Givers
It does make one wonder. How could the church dispense such swift justice to Sr. Margaret McBride, a highly respected nun, while dragging its feet over priests who abused vulnerable young people.
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Paging General Surgery…Paging General Surgery…Paging…
In the 1970s, Dr. Nathan Womack, a former chairman of the Department of Surgery UNC medical school, believed that surgical residents should not be married, much less have children. While that seemed like an antiquated view even then, a new study suggests that Dr. Womack was ahead of his time, finding that families are an impediment to specialty surgical training.
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First Mom and Childhood Obesity Task Force Provides 70 Recommendations to End Childhood Obesity
In health care, the first step is defining the problem. The second is a treatment plan. The Childhood Obesity Task Force’s review has provided both.
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Teen-age Friendships…Does Technology Help Them or Hurt Them?
My 15-year-old grand-daughter has a terrific group of friends—the opposite of the mean girls people worry about—and should.
Their bond is as strong as any I have ever seen among a group of girls, especially at a difficult age. They have a name, which is the first initial of each of their names [...]
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Facebook Nation Violating Privacy of “Citizens” in More New Ways
If a big company or federal agency did what Facebook is doing, rather than being complicit, the Washington Post and other outlets would be all over them.
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There Are Way Too Many of Us for Them…What Can We Do?
This is my fantasy about America’s health care.
Much like the sorting hat in Harry Potter, which could tell which house within the school the wearer belonged, this magic hat would tell us what to do about the biggest issues before us. This hat would know more words than that school of magic hat but, in [...]
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Is Friendship the Same for Kids Today As It Was When Face-to-Face (F2F) and Dumb Phones Were All There Was?
A new study finds that teenagers send staggering amounts of text messages. One-third send more than 100 text messages a day. Only one-third talk to their friends on a daily basis.
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Sneak A Look at Your Primary Care Doctor’s Average Day… Much Work, Much of It Urgent and Uncompensated
Many people talk about how hard primary care physicians work but, until now, there have been few studies which examined exactly how hard their days are.
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Domestic and Child Abuse Linked, Study Says…Where There Is One Form, The Risk for Both Goes Up 30%-60%
A child in my class had an earache and fever. I called his mother and told her he was sick. Then I told him she was coming to pick him up. He threw his arms around me and said, in a pleading voice, “Please, no, Miss Bridge, let me stay here with you!”
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Professor Finds Signs of Social Media Addiction Among Students
A journalism professor asked 200 students to give up all media for one day. It was withdrawal time for the participants. The study says that the students reported not being able to function well. However, any activity which causes the symptoms these students reported needs more investigation.
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