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Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 10

A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping to see ...





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Things To Ponder While Eating Halloween Candy

Things To Ponder While Eating Halloween Candy

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For kids, ringing a neighbor's doorbell, yelling "trick or treat," and receiving candy brings plenty of smiles, but for many the real fun of Halloween happens when you turn your plastic jack-o'-lantern candy ...


Places to play, but 'stranger danger' fears keep inner-city kids home

Places to play, but 'stranger danger' fears keep inner-city kids home

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kids and teens in inner-city neighbourhoods have parks and places in which to play and be physically active, but their perceptions of "stranger danger" keep many of them away.


FTC: Children still marketed violent content

Technology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.


The Medical Minute: There's no trick to a safe Halloween

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by the Penn State Hershey ...


No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era (AP)

No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era

Technology / Other

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Holly Kopczynski always prided herself on raising her kids the right way, teaching them etiquette basics like saying "please" and "thank you." Then it happened.


Tech and teens

Tech and teens

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko "Mimi" Ito has found, and schools should take note.


Age-old kids' query in a text message: Wuz4dina?

Technology / Other

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Teens and texting is a subject that's often discussed in pathological terms. They're texting in class! They're sexting! They're running up $5,000 bills! They need thumb therapy!


Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP)

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill ...


Research on Childhood Obesity May Help Fight Epidemic

Research on Childhood Obesity May Help Fight Epidemic

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 16 percent of children and adolescents in the United States are overweight-a doubling of the estimated incidence of overweight among children and a tripling of the rate among adolescents ...


Swine flu school closings could cost billions (AP)

Swine flu school closings could cost billions

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Closing schools and day care centers because of swine flu could cost between $10 billion and $47 billion, a report by the Brookings Institution think tank found.



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