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Kids will love this. Eating sweets may ward off ear infections--if the sweet contains a sugar substitute called xylitol. In a Finnish study, children given chewing gum with xylitol had 40% fewer ear infections. Xylitol, it turns out, is a powerful antimicrobial. It is used in small quantities to help sweeten Trident Advantage, Breath Assure and other sugarless gums...
Torres' experience in research began when she helped to start a chapter of the Westinghouse Preparatory Program at her junior high school. At Ward Melville High School on Long Island, she began extensive science research with a social science project on gender discrimination in schools, surveying 1,000 students in the area...
High School: Ward Melville High School...
This afternoon the kids in the pediatric isolation ward have come together for something called Cell Mates. Most are bald and towing IV trees behind them as they gather. In Cell Mates they play games that help them come to terms with their diseases--with the blood cells that are failing them, the cancers and immune deficiencies that are attacking them, and the new replacement cells that are helping them. Many of the kids, like Caroline Strother, 6, are old hands at medical games. She swabs her doll's arm and prepares to insert a central line, but asks...
...program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive-care ward soon for rehabilitation. "That's better for him," says Snyderman. "And cheaper...