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Healthy Schools
It's a fact...childhood obesity is on the rise and the number of children who are overweight has tripled over the past 30 years.
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prescription painkillers
Teens these days are grabbing more than band aids in their parent's medicine cabinet...they are taking prescription painkillers as well.
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Energy Drinks
Energy drinks contain a substantial amount of caffeine, sugar and other ingredients that can lead to serious side effects including increased or irregular heartbeat, seizures...
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Kids and the Flu
You may believe it's early, but now is time to be thinking about flu season. Every child over 6 months of age should be immunized...
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ADHD Abuse
There is a lot of pressure placed on students to succeed and many of them are turning to what teens call the "good grade pill"....
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Happy Halloween!
Halloween is certainly one of the more playful holidays we celebrate. Kids and adults dress up as monsters, celebrities, heroes, ghouls and imaginary things that...
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Allergy Drops & Sprays Poisonous If Swallowed
Spring and fall are both beautiful seasons, but for some people they are the time when allergies flare up and cause a lot of misery....
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Energy Drink Investigated After 14"Year-Old Dies
They are everywhere. Cans marketed as energy drinks fill the beverage isles and cold drink containers at local grocery stores and quick stop markets all...
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Boys Entering Puberty Earlier
For years scientific studies have indicated that girls are entering puberty at a younger age. Now a new study, focused on boys, says they too...
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The Truth Behind Lies Parents Tell
What an interesting study I came across recently regarding lying. Guess what, it was not about children lying, but rather about parents lying to their...
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Twenty-Seven Minutes of Extra Sleep
Twenty-Seven minutes of extra sleep doesn't sound like it would make much of a difference in a child's behavior, but according to a new study...
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Mother's Kiss Works for Removing Nose Objects
I just like the sound of this; a mother's kiss can dislodge a foreign object in her kid's nose. It doesn't quite have that warm...
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Recall: Kellogg's Mini-Wheat Cereals
Kellogg's is voluntarily recalling nearly 3 million boxes of its bite size Frosted and Unfrosted Mini-Wheats cereal because of the possible presence of fragments of...
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Shorter Time Span for Kid's Allergy Shots
Nearly 7 million children in the United States suffer with asthma. While allergies and asthma are two different conditions, allergies often trigger asthma. Allergy shots...
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Speedy DNA Test Identifies Gene Diseases in Newborns
Newborns are routinely screened at birth for a variety of diseases, but tests results can sometimes take up to two weeks. For some conditions that...
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About Sue Hubbard, M.D.
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Sue Hubbard is an award winning pediatrician and medical editor for
www.kidsdr.com. She is a native of Washington, D.C. who travelled south
to attend the University of Texas at Austin and never left. Read More
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