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How much do you tell your kids?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jul 20th 2007 1:58PM

Wednesday night, I broke our family rule -- I caused us to exceed one visit to the emergency room per year. This was, in fact, our third so far this year. I was in the kitchen when the floor suddenly dropped about two feet. I gasped, thinking it was ...
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The dilemma of keeping teens safe

by Heather Craven, Posted Oct 30th 2006 2:00PM

Yesterday Kristin Scott wrote about a teen who lost her breast due to an infection that spread after she got her nipples pierced. Another similar case has been in the news that involved a teenage girl who died from a long battle with an infection ...
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Drug-resistant superbug spreading

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 19th 2006 4:00PM

An article in today's New England Journal of Medicine described how a once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms. Many victims mistakenly think they just have spider bites ...
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