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Teens Exposed to Less Secondhand Smoke in Cars - WebMD

2.6.12


USA TODAY
Teens Exposed to Less Secondhand Smoke in Cars
WebMD
By Cari Nierenberg Feb. 6, 2012 -- Secondhand smoke exposure in cars declined among US middle and high school students between 2000 and 2009. The number of young people who reported riding in a car with someone who was smoking cigarettes "within the ...
Too Many Kids Breathe Others' Smoke in Cars: CDCABC News
Less Smoke Exposure in Teens' CarsMedPage Today
CDC: Too many kids breathe others' smoke in carsUSA TODAY
Ohio News Network -CBS News
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Komen Source: Pro-Life VP Karen Handel Gung-Ho About Defunding Planned Parenthood - Gothamist

2.6.12


Gothamist
Komen Source: Pro-Life VP Karen Handel Gung-Ho About Defunding Planned Parenthood
Gothamist
In an article that confirms all of the suspicions about why the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to defund breast cancer prevention programs at Planned Parenthood, the Huffington Post reports that a Komen source says vice president for public policy ...
Ari Fleischer and KomenWashington Post (blog)
For some Komen supporters, no forgivenessNew York Daily News
Breast cancer survivalChicago Tribune
Bloomberg -WSJM -msnbc.com
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Child Abuse - 4569 Hospitalizations And 300 Deaths In One Year, USA - Medical News Today

2.6.12


MD News
Child Abuse - 4569 Hospitalizations And 300 Deaths In One Year, USA
Medical News Today
Child abuse injuries resulted in 4500 hospitalizations and 300 fatalities in just one year in the USA, researchers from Yale School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. This is the first study that has quantified abuse severity and how many ...
Study: Child abuse bigger threat than SIDSmsnbc.com
Child abuse toll, green tea benefits and Facebook addictionUSA TODAY
Study: Child Abuse Affects More US Kids than SIDSTIME
CBS News -Reuters -Fox News
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Why Spanking Doesn't Work - TIME

2.6.12


TIME
Why Spanking Doesn't Work
TIME
A new analysis concludes that spanking fails to alter kids' behavior in the long term. What it does instead is amp up their aggression. By Bonnie Rochman | @brochman | February 6, 2012 | + Want your kid to stop whatever dangerous/annoying/forbidden ...
Physical discipline linked to future aggressionCTV.ca
Spanking No Help in Child-RearingMedPage Today
Children who are spanked more aggressive: studyNational Post
MLive.com -CANOE -CBC.ca
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Sloan-Kettering Chief Is Accused of Taking Research - New York Times

2.5.12


Sloan-Kettering Chief Is Accused of Taking Research
New York Times
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace, a cancer institute at the University of Pennsylvania, over accusations that he walked away with groundbreaking research and ...
Sloan-Kettering, Celgene Sued Over Cancer Research DealBusinessWeek
Sloan-Kettering CEO sued by Philly instituteCrain's New York Business
Will $1B cancer IP theft suit trigger tighter vigilance on researchers' work?FierceBiotech
Genetic Engineering News
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Woman gets world's first 3D printed jaw transplant - CBS News

2.6.12


BBC News
Woman gets world's first 3D printed jaw transplant
CBS News
(CBS) Doctors and engineers have joined forces to bring the world its first lower jaw transplant, using a prosthetic jaw made by a 3D printer. An 83-year-old Belgian woman underwent the operation last June, after suffering from an infection that ...
Transplant jaw made by 3D printerBBC News
Woman receives new jawbone created by 3D printerNew York Daily News
Woman Receives 3D Printer-Created Transplant JawPC Magazine
Mashable -Popular Science -Forbes
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Your Brain May Be "Wired" For Addiction (But You Don't Have To Surrender) - Forbes

2.6.12


New York Daily News
Your Brain May Be "Wired" For Addiction (But You Don't Have To Surrender)
Forbes
Addiction is one of the most common mental health problems there is: Drug use alone affects tens of millions of Americans, and that's only the illegal ones. Even more people deal with addictions to other things – alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, food, ...
Inherited Vulnerability to Drug Addiction DiscoveredVoice of America
Addiction could be hereditary: studyNew Zealand Herald
Addicts' Vulnerability to Drugs Linked to Family Ties, |U.K. Study ShowsBloomberg
BusinessWeek -Fox News
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Ex-foster home kids claim malaria injections - NECN

2.6.12


Ex-foster home kids claim malaria injections
NECN
VIENNA (AP) — Hospital experts are probing claims from two former Vienna foster home residents that they were injected with the parasite that causes malaria to treat psychological disorders. Vienna's AKH and the Vienna University clinic announced their ...
"Malaria cure" claim sparks Vienna probeYahoo!7 News

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Breastfeeding may give babies stronger lungs - abc7.com

2.6.12


abc7.com
Breastfeeding may give babies stronger lungs
abc7.com
A new study found that children who were breastfed for a long duration had good lung capacity and less asthma risk. (KABC Photo) LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Breastfeeding could help babies develop stronger lungs, according to British researchers.
Breastfeeding OK for Moms With AsthmaWebMD
Breastfeeding Linked to Better Lung FunctionMedPage Today
Lung Function At School Age Better Thanks To BreastfeedingMedical News Today
HealthNews
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Dendreon shares climb on critical review for Amgen - CBS News

2.6.12


13WMAZ
Dendreon shares climb on critical review for Amgen
CBS News
(AP) WASHINGTON — Shares of biotech drugmaker Dendreon Corp. rose Monday after federal health regulators published a critical review of rival Amgen's drug for prostate cancer. Dendreon's lead product is the prostate cancer drug Provenge, ...
FDA Staff Questions Merit of Expanding Use of Amgen's XgevaBusinessWeek
FDA staff unsure about new use for Amgen's XgevaReuters
FDA questions Amgen drug for prostate cancerThe Associated Press

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