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Oklahoma lawmaker plans to introduce "Caylee's law"

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma lawmaker said on Wednesday he planned to introduce a "Caylee's law" in his state requiring parents to swiftly report the death or disappearance of a child in the first legislation stemming from the death of the ...

Moms' diet not tied to kids' heart health: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study from West Africa suggests that supplementing pregnant women's diets with extra calories and protein doesn't protect their kids against risk factors for heart disease once they're teenagers.But researchers unconnected to the new work suggest ...

Finger length may have link to penis length: study

HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Hands may say more about their owners than commonly thought, especially in the case of men.Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may have longer penises, according to a South Korean study published in ...

Ban fast food ads on TV: U.S. doctors

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fast food ads on TV are making American youth fatter and should be banned in children's programming, an influential group of doctors said Monday."Congress and the Federal Trade Commission have to get tough with the food industry," ...

Portable pools pose summer risk for kids

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With the hot summer months arriving, a new study warns that caregivers need to be thinking about the drowning hazards posed by portable pools, including inflatable and wading pools."Parents need to be aware that these pools can ...

Obama says still wonders about his absent father

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama, whose Kenyan father left his family when the future U.S. president was 2 years old, said Saturday he still thinks about how things would have worked out had his dad been there."I felt his absence. And I ...

Report: Working dads' top priority is giving family love

BOSTON (Reuters) - Many fathers these days want it all -- time with kids, promotions at work and a spouse who shares the parenting duties.But some say they would trade in their commute and office gig for a stay-at-home role.With Father's Day ...

Sextuplets critical but responding to treatment

ABINGTON, Pa (Reuters Life!) - Sextuplets born to a couple in Pennsylvania were listed in critical condition but were responding to treatment, doctors said on Monday.At a press conference the parents of the babies and doctors at Abington Memorial Hospital spoke about ...

Sextuplets born in north Philadelphia suburb

ABINGTON, Pa (Reuters) - Have a cigar -- and another, and another, and another three -- to celebrate the birth of sextuplets at a hospital in a northern Philadelphia suburb.The three baby boys and three baby girls were in the neonatal intensive ...

More U.S. women using medications during pregnancy

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most pregnant women in the U.S. use at least one prescription or over-the-counter medication -- even though the safety of those drugs during pregnancy is not always clear, a new study finds.Looking at data from two long-running ...