Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. Kids should get screened for cholesterol — and some as young as 8 should get cholesterol-lowering drugs. Those are the recommendations from ...
Read more...Dan Peterson blogs about sports science at his site Sports Are 80 Percent Mental and at Scientific Blogging. The end of 2008 brings some discouraging news about our kids' brains and brawn. Recent results from an international math and science test ...
Read more...Stressed mothers from low-income households with sufficient food are likely to raise overweight kids, says a new study. During the study, the researchers analysed the data collected from 841 children in 425 households in the 1999-2002 National ...
Read more...A major IVF milestone, a new form of sex therapy for older women and no-cut, no-scar heart surgery for Aussies topped medical news in Australia in 2008. New vaccines found success while other potential lifesavers failed, and a handful of ...
Read more...(To see a video of Dr. Jorge Minera, please go to http://www.viewfromhospitalhill.org/2008/12/key-to-womens-health-is-education.html ) Pap smears and mammograms are vital tools that help doctors address women’s health needs, but comprehensive ...
Read more...Starting the first week of January, TODAY will be following two determined teams who are committed to losing weight in 2009. Teams “Motivated Moms” and “Fit Friends” will go head-to-head with the help of TODAY nutritionist Joy Bauer in the ...
Read more...George Stephanopoulos interviewed Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni briefly today on Israel's decision to reject international calls for a 48 hour cease-fire . Livni said that a cease-fire "doesn't serve Israel" because Hamas will "abuse any kind ...
Read more...AGELL, Charlotte . Shift . 230p. CIP. Holt/Christy Ottaviano Bks. 2008. Tr $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8050-7810-7 . LC 2007046942. Gr 7–9— Adrian Havoc, 15, lives in an urban hotbox in the partially post-nuclear United Christian States, where the end of ...
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