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Families who eat a bag of peanuts a week could trigger nut allergies in infants

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Parents who eat lots of peanuts may be putting their children at risk of developing a life-threatening allergy to the food, Government-funded research shows.
The study of hundreds […]

Tobacco taxes may go to child health

WASHINGTON The nation’s 45 million smokers will probably help pay for the spending increase that Democrats want for children’s health insurance, say analysts familiar with deliberations on Capitol Hill.
Democratic lawmakers will push for $50 billion in new funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next five years. To pay for […]

In treating muscular dystrophy, an early drug test shows promise

Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a drug that may eventually be used to treat children with a severe and fatal type of muscular dystrophy.
In its first test in humans, a safety study in just four boys, the drug enabled patients to produce an essential muscle protein that is missing in Duchennes muscular dystrophy, […]

Never Too Late to Cut Heart Risk

Even if you’re getting up in age, exercise can cut your risk of heart disease by up to 90 percent! That’s according to German researchers who looked back at data gathered in a comparison of 312 people with heart disease and 479 age-matched, healthy blood donors.
Exercise, even if you don’t start until your 40s, can […]

Researchers: Choices spawn happiness

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan long ago dispensed with the notion of Gross National Product as a gauge of well-being. The king decreed that his people would aspire to Gross National Happiness instead.
That kernel of Buddhist wisdom is increasingly finding an echo in international policy and development models, which seek […]