Reuters - The combination of two drugs -- Femara (letrozole) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) -- could be of benefit in infertile women of advanced reproductive age undergoing intrauterine insemination, results of a study indicate.
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 AFP - Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on Friday.
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Reuters - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.
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Reuters - Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report.
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 AFP - Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region, the president said in a statement Friday.
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Babies delivered by cesarean
section experience changes to the DNA of white blood cells, which might
explain why they're at increased risk for immunological diseases such as
diabetes and asthma later in life, Swedish researchers say.
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with type 1
diabetes are more likely to be overweight than those without the disease,
increasing their risk of serious health complications, researchers
say.
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Reuters - Excessive crying in infants, otherwise known as colic, has been linked to symptoms of depression in the mother. Now a study conducted in the Netherlands links infant colic to depression in the father as well.
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 AFP - Australian authorities told parents not to panic Thursday after the country announced its first child death linked to swine flu.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Repeated use of antibiotics to
treat acute ear infections in young children increases the risk of
recurrent ear infections by 20 percent, according to researchers in the
Netherlands who called for more prudent use of antibiotics in young
children.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Watching food ads on TV leads to
a boost in snacking among children and adults, increasing the risk of
weight gain, U.S. researchers say.
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 Reuters - Women who maintain a healthy, well-balanced diet during pregnancy have children with bigger and stronger bones than women with poorer quality diets, according to the results of a study presented Tuesday at the National Osteoporosis Society Conference in Manchester, UK.
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Don't automatically blame
mom: A crying, colicky baby can be just as much the result of dad's state
of mind, Dutch researchers report.
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Reuters - A sizable minority of adolescents believe they are likely to die at a young age, and this perception is a powerful predictor of involvement in high risk behaviors and poor health outcomes, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Some children may resist wearing eyeglasses,
despite the resulting improvement in vision, school work and even
extracurricular sports.
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HealthDay - MONDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to help children
develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to
what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.
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Reuters - The ability of a mother to identify a weight problem in her child appears to be dependent on her own weight, with overweight mothers tending to underestimate her child's weight. On the other hand, a mother's ability to correctly determine the weight status of a child who is unrelated to her appears to depend on her socioeconomic level, new research in Pediatrics shows.
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 AFP - Sportsmen who carry out high levels of cycle training could be damaging their chance of fatherhood, researchers reported on Monday.
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 AFP - French doctors on Monday unveiled a new technique in ovarian transplant that had helped a young woman who had been menopausal for two years to give birth to a healthy baby girl.
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AP - Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday.
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