Topic: United States
First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, in a Friday editorial urged Americans to "do something" to support US troops as they return from combat in Iraq. "While America's combat mission in Iraq has ended, America's ...
SUV rear-ends buggy in Ohio, injuring pregnant Amish woman, her husband and 6 childrenAuthorities say the driver of a sport-utility vehicle rear-ended a buggy in northeast Ohio, injuring an Amish woman who was eight months pregnant, her husband and their six children. ...
Ohio woman getting used to impatient babies after giving birth a 2nd time on drive to hospitalFor a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn't wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital. Christina Schuler's ...
Truck driver accused of striking, dragging 2 young children for quarter-mile in Calif.Police say a tow truck driver has been accused of hitting two young children as their mother pushed them across a street in a stroller then dragging the kids under ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Children whose mothers were exposed to certain types of pesticides while pregnant were more likely to have attention problems as they grew up, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, adds to evidence that ...
Texas dad advertises teen daughter for 30-hour adventure in baby-sitting after broken curfewA Texas teenager who broke curfew is headed for a reluctant adventure in baby-sitting. Robert Rausch placed an advertisement offering his daughter's free baby-sitting services in the community newspaper in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Children whose mothers were exposed to certain types of pesticides while pregnant were more likely to have attention problems as they grew up, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, adds to evidence that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Girls in the United States are hitting puberty at an earlier age with overweight youngsters tending to develop earlier, according to a U.S. study. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center researchers compared 1,200 girls aged 7 and 8 ...
More US girls are starting puberty younger, with large percentages developing breasts and pubic hair as early as seven, according to a study released Monday in the American journal Pediatrics. Nearly a quarter of black girls (23.4 percent), 14.9 percent of Hispanic ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Traffic injuries among children ages 4 to 6 declined in New York State in the wake of a law requiring them to be strapped into car booster seats, researchers reported Monday. Most U.S. states now require that ...