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  Can Going Hungry as a Child Slow Down Cognitive Decline in Later Years?

  December 10, 2012 — People who sometimes went hungry as children had slower cognitive decline once they were elderly than people who always had enough food to eat, according to a new ... > full story
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  Teen Dating Violence Linked to Long-Term Harmful Effects

  December 10, 2012 — Teenagers in physically or psychologically aggressive dating relationships are more than twice as likely to repeat such damaging relationships as adults and report increased substance use and ... > full story
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  Infants With Severe RSV Disease May Be Immunosuppressed

  December 10, 2012 — Infants with severe lower respiratory tract infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) may have a dysfunctional innate immune response that relates to the severity of their ... > full story
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  Into Adulthood, Sickle Cell Patients Rely on ER

  December 10, 2012 — Patients with sickle cell disease rely more on the emergency room as they move from pediatric to adult health care, according to ... > full story
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  Earphones, Music Players on Kids' Holiday Gift Lists? Add a Hearing Screening

  December 10, 2012 — Parents are loud and clear: they overwhelmingly support required hearing screenings for kids all the way to age 17, according to a new ... > full story
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  ADHD Linked to Oxygen Deprivation Before Birth

  December 10, 2012 — Children who had in-utero exposure to ischemic-hypoxic conditions, situations during which the brain is deprived of oxygen, were significantly more likely to develop attention deficit hyperactivity ... > full story
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  Second-Hand Smoke Increases Risk of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Children

  December 10, 2012 — The dangers of second-hand smoke (passive smoking) on children continue to become ever more apparent. A new study shows that second hand smoke and fetal exposure due to maternal smoking while ... > full story
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  Oxytocin Produces More Engaged Fathers and More Responsive Infants

  December 10, 2012 — A large body of research has focused on the ability of oxytocin to facilitate social bonding in both marital and parenting relationships in human females. A new laboratory study has found that ... > full story
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  Abuse During Childhood Linked to Adult-Onset Asthma in African-American Women

  December 7, 2012 — According to a new study, African-American women who reported suffering abuse before age 11 had a greater likelihood of adult-onset asthma compared to women whose childhood and adolescence were free ... > full story
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  Fasting May Benefit Patients With Epilepsy

  December 6, 2012 — Children with persistent and drug-resistant seizures treated with the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet may get an added therapeutic benefit from periodic fasting, according to a small ... > full story

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