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Study: Better TV might improve kids' behavior
SEATTLE (AP) - A new study has found teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers' behavior, even without getting them to watch...
LEAD POISONING TOLL REVISED TO 1 IN 38 YOUNG KIDS
NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials say more than half a million young children are now believed to have lead poisoning in the United States. The figure is roughly twice the previ...
STUDY SHOWS DECLINING LIFE SPAN FOR SOME US WOMEN
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain. The lat...
Early number sense plays role in later math skills
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earlies...
CATHOLIC HOSPITAL TAKES SURPRISE STANCE IN LAWSUIT
DENVER (AP) -- It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care ...
MORNING-AFTER PILL USE UP TO 1 IN 9 YOUNGER WOMEN
NEW YORK (AP) -- About 1 in 9 younger women have used the morning-after pill after sex, according to the first government report to focus on emergency contraception since its appro...
SURGERY, THERAPY BOTH PROVE GOOD FOR KNEE REPAIR
You might not want to rush into knee surgery. Physical therapy can be just as good for a common injury and at far less cost and risk, the most rigorous study to compare these treat...
MEASLES SURGES IN UK YEARS AFTER FLAWED RESEARCH
LONDON (AP) -- More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to a...
