Kids 5-9 get Pa.’s first swine flu vaccine - WPVI
HARRISBURG, Pa. - September 30, 2009 — Children in some parts of Pennsylvania should receive the first doses of free, voluntary swine flu vaccines as early as next week. State Health Department officials said Wednesday that healthy children ages

Start young to teach healthy eating - Morning Journal
Television and peers can trump parents when it comes to influencing what children eat, but that doesn’t mean families can’t fight back. A Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study found parents have waning influence over what their

Rautzhan: Books teach kids important lessons on healthy relationships - Port Huron Times-Herald
Children learn a great deal by example — the example set by their parents and other caregivers, extended family they frequently come in contact with and through interaction with their peers. Children also learn a great deal from the books that are

Kids of working moms less healthy, study says - MSNBC
SYDNEY - Children whose mothers work are less likely to eat healthily or exercise as often as children with stay-at-home mums, according to a British study that is likely to raise the hackles of working mothers. The UK Millennium Cohort Study looked

Fetal Surgery May Treat Heart Defect - MedicineNet.com
“Using the new procedure, in about 30 percent of the fetuses [with technically successful operations], there was an outcome of a two-ventricle circulation after birth,” said Dr. Doff B. McElhinney, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard