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Back-to-School Tips on Backpack Safety...
SOURCE: MCGHealth Children's Medical Center, news release, Aug. 2, 2010
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| SATURDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- As the new school year approaches, parents and children planning their "back-to-school" lists are urged to keep backpack safety in mind.
Each year, about 6,000 children in the United States experience backpack-related injuries, Linda Rhodes, an occupat... |
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Contact lenses top cause of device problem in kids...
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| CHICAGO - More than 70,000 children and teens go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices and contact lenses are the leading culprit, the first detailed national estimate suggests.
About one-fourth of the problems were things like infections and... |
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Wakefulness Not to Blame for Higher SIDS Deaths in Boys...
SOURCE: American Academy of Sleep Medicine, news release, Aug. 1, 2010
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| SUNDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) - Experts have long known that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is more common in boys than girls, but a new study suggests that gender differences in levels of wakefulness are not to blame.
In fact, the researchers found that infant boys are more easily... |
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