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Peanut Butter Recall Hurts Sales

by Brett Singer, Posted Feb 10th 2009 3:00PM

Peanut Butter is more than just your child's lunch/allergy. It's big business. With the recent recall of tainted PB, big name brands like Jif and Peter Pan have seen a drop in sales of at least 20 percent, according to a report by CNN, while the ...
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School Teaches Children How to Blow Their Noses

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 2nd 2009 4:00PM

Yesterday, Sandy Maple wrote about teaching her daughter to blow her nose and the Kleenex website that could help. Today, I offer another alternative -- a school that is teaching kids how to blow their noses properly. Unfortunately, it's in England, ...
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Mom uses internet to diagnose daughter's disease

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jul 21st 2008 3:02PM

It's like an episode of mystery diagnosis. Thirteen-year-old Danielle Fisher got sick last fall and got progressively worse until she was unable to even get out of bed without suffering from vertigo and shortness of breath. Doctors weren't any help, ...
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Flu reporting from the trenches

by Angie Felton, Posted Feb 25th 2008 2:31PM

After a winter of reasonably good health, our household has been struck with a flu that makes even gazing out the window a fatiguing proposition. And this year, I was sort of good about getting flu shots. I say sort of because while I did take the ...
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White House makes kids sick

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 10th 2008 4:58PM

I think every one knows the White House makes me sick these days, but it seems I'm not alone. A group of kids from a Southern California K-8 school were at the White House as part of an East Coast trip to visit historical sites in Washington, New ...
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Getting sick on a busy weekend

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Dec 10th 2007 12:01PM

This time of year is often a very busy one whether or not you have kids. We started out this past weekend with a doctor's appointment Friday afternoon and a party Friday night. Saturday had Sara's secret store followed by the Winter Gala at Jared's ...
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DNA testing - would you do it?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 2nd 2007 4:27PM

Some genetic testing on children is already done through routine newborn screening programs, where blood samples are examined for several diseases such as sickle cell and cystic fibrosis. But advances in genetic testing opens up the potential to ...
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Blogging Baby Sleepover for Sunday, January 21

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 21st 2007 9:01PM

Who cares about taking out the garbage when the internet is right there, just begging to be surfed? How can one say no? I came across a journal written by someone I used to work with and was intrigued by his intent. He's not writing for himself, or ...
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Germs go to school

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 1st 2006 3:30PM

Before I got married, I never got sick. No colds, no flu, not even a sniffle. Then I married a schoolteacher and now I get sick all the time. She doesn't get sick, she just brings the germs home to infect me. Turns out, she's got plenty left at ...
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California beaches might not be so healthy for family vacationers

by Heather Craven, Posted Jul 19th 2006 5:00PM

An estimated 80 million people visit California beaches every year. Of that number, between 627,800 and 1,479,200 cases of excessive gastrointestinal sicknesses occur; bacterial pollution is the culprit. Symptoms such as stomach cramps, diarrhea and ...
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Enjoying sick time with kids

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 23rd 2006 2:52PM

Ha! I know what you're saying, how can you enjoy life with sick kids? It's one of the lowest points of parenthood. Your babies, they feel sooo terrible, and often there's nothing you can do about it. We've learned that cough medicines don't even ...
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