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Infants may not get their hearing tested until they're 8 months old. Too late, say doctors writing in the journal Lancet. Screening babies shortly after birth, they argue, may catch thousands more cases of permanent hearing impairment, keeping language development on track. --By Sora Song
...gave birth May 1, two days after her husband Jay, a captain, was killed at a checkpoint. Labor was induced so that she and the baby boy could attend the funeral. But Harting, of Fort Irwin, Calif., knows that the real work of eulogizing Jay to their three children has yet to begin: she wants their father's death to be a lesson that sometimes the toughest fights are the most important ones. That's why Harting smarts at Sheehan's brand of grief-fueled activism. "I sympathize with her pain. But I think Cindy Sheehan doesn...
...easy to understand why Trish and Andy Olson initially considered suing. But more than money, what the suburban St. Paul, Minn., couple wanted from the hospital was a genuine apology. Their son Owen, 7, born with spina bifida and a range of other birth defects, had already endured more than 40 operations by the time he was taken to the Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota for treatment of a suspected infection last fall. Because the staff on duty that night forgot to attach a catheter to Owen, doctors ended up having to take emergency action several hours later...
MARY JANE MCGRAW, leader of a Catholic parishioners group, on the Portland, Ore., archdiocese once telling a woman, who was suing for child support for a seminarian's son, that she should have used birth control...
...just knew he was it. We were on matchmaker.com He had the most criteria that reflected my answers to the questionnaire. I'll be darned if that computer wasn't exactly right. We like the same movies. We like the same books. It was almost like separated at birth...