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...mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child. I wonder whether Madonna understands that...
...younger. And a very large study of fathers in Israel found that the risk of autism among children is up to six times as great when the father is 40 or older, as opposed to when he is 29 or younger. In both studies, the mother's age was not relevant. The cause of the problem, researchers say, probably is changes in sperm that occur as men grow older...
...Woman disturbed at being the only mother at the Greenwich Country Day School who's still driving a 2006 Cadillac Escalade when everyone else is driving 2007 Porsche Cayennes...
Alisha Saleem, 20, was born too early to benefit from the newest antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. In fact, there weren't any HIV treatments for adults, much less children, in 1986. Saleem, who contracted the virus from her mother, an intravenous-drug user, was 4 when she took her first AIDS drug, and even then the only option she had was AZT. Today doctors know that the best way to fight the virus is to hit it with three drugs at once, one of which is preferably a protease inhibitor. But early patients like Saleem had to learn the hard...
...symptoms of food allergy is dread, Mindlin explains. She knows something is very wrong and literally tries to jump out of skin. It's unbearable to watch. As a result, Maya tends to shut down around food and new people. Some of Maya's first words, her mother says, were "Read the 'gredients...