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...have influenza during the same seasons. Turns out that flu shots seemed not to make much difference: Kids who got immunized did not get the flu at lower rates than unvaccinated kids. In fact, the immunized youngsters were just as likely to be hospitalized or to visit the doctor as kids who never received the vaccine...
...technique such as reading to promote weight loss would be fairly easy. Already, the Reach Out and Read Program, a nationwide non-profit literacy effort begun by pediatricians at the Boston Medical Center in 1989, encourages reading by providing books to preschool children each time they visit the doctor's office. Why not piggyback messages about healthy lifestyle habits on this existing reading framework? "This study makes me wonder if we could do that with older kids as well," says Hassink. "We are already thinking at our hospital about mixing in positive lifestyle books with what the kids read...
...messy screenplay and dull performances. In “Blindness,” a mysterious plague of contagious blindness creates chaos in an unnamed city. Those first afflicted by the disease are quarantined in a grimy and unstaffed medical facility. Julianne Moore plays the wife of an eye doctor infected by the plague, and she bravely joins her husband in the quarantine building. Unnamed like the rest of the cast, the eye doctor’s wife is the only character in the movie who can see—in both a physical and moral sense?...
Most troubling of all, however, were the statements from doctors included in the criminal complaint filed by prosecutors earlier this week. "Upon the statement of Dr. Angela Bier at Children's Hospital that [the boy Jesse] suffers severely from failure to thrive, is considered short and underweight for his age, is diagnosed with osteopenia (lack of density in the bones), which is likely rickets caused by a dietary deficiency, and fractures to the right tibia and fibula, and a fracture to the left ulna." Another doctor explained that the fractures appear old and had never been treated...
...remains under doctor's care, but his father, Matthew Sebuliba, is anxious for a reunion that has been nearly two years in the making, his attorneys say. "[We] are very hopeful that he will recover soon and that the court order granting sole legal custody and physical placement to the father will finally be followed and enforced," said Deedee D. Rongstad of the Legal Services of Milwaukee...