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...baby was already in a good sleeping environment, there wasn't very much chance they were 'rebreathing,'" says Dr. De-Kun Li of Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research and a co-author of the study, referring to the re-inhalation of carbon dioxide that is associated with sudden unexplained death. "So it's not surprising that adding a fan, or not, didn't make that much difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fans Reduce Infants' Sudden Death Risk | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...idea behind the study, says Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a pediatrician and director of Healthy Lifestyles, was to find a way to motivate the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet programs. Lake Rescue was the perfect instrument, says Armstrong; it presents a likable character to whom the girls could relate and whom they could emulate. As the book progresses, its heroine learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds a mentor to help keep her on track, Amstrong says: "She learns that she can become healthier, and the self-efficacy part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Reading Help Kids Lose Weight? | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

...that may be the study's most significant finding, says Dr. Sandra Hassink, director of the Weight Management Clinic at A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., and leader of the Obesity Leadership Group at the American Academy of Pediatrics. What's more, instituting a 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Reading Help Kids Lose Weight? | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

...that the Factory ultimately thrived on but which were often overshadowed by Warhol.Williams spent time at Harvard, honing both his visual sensitivity as a member of The Harvard Crimson photography staff and—as Robinson speculates—his appreciation for drugs as a possible test subject in Dr. Timothy Leary’s psychedelic drug experiments. However, the issue of sexuality made it difficult for him to enjoy his Harvard experience.“Danny was in his first or second year, really struggling and having a hard time being gay at Harvard,” Robinson says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Man Inside Warhol's Factory | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad End to Milwaukee Child-Custody Case | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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