Topic: United States
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many American youngsters are not getting enough physical activity and parents are failing to make their children's health a priority, according to a new study.The research by the YMCA, which surveyed more than 1,600 American parents with children ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The teen pregnancy rate in 2009, the latest year for which data are available, hit its lowest since tracking began 70 years ago, the Center for Disease Control said on Tuesday.However, more than 400,000 teen girls still give birth ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. teen pregnancy rate in 2009, the latest year for which data are available, hit its lowest since tracking began 70 years ago, the Center for Disease Control said on Tuesday.However, more than 400,000 teen girls still give ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California lawmaker said on Thursday that what he called a maternity ward for Chinese mothers who wanted their babies born in the United States showed the need for immigration law changes.City officials in San Gabriel, which is ...
US pediatricians recommended that parents keep their children in rear-facing safety seats until the age of two -- twice as long as is the current practice.The American Academy of Pediatrics, in a new policy published in the April issue of Pediatrics, said ...
Surgery to repair a birth defect known as spina bifida is best done in the womb rather than after the baby is born, the results of an eight-year US trial released Wednesday suggest.The method was so successful in boosting babies' health and ...
The US teen birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in 70 years, a study said Wednesday, as an expert pointed to regular contraceptive use by teens as the main cause of the drop.The 2009 rate was 39.1 births per 1,000 ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, is pregnant."I have been wanting to share some amazing news with you all for some time... I'm pregnant!" she Tweeted.Ivanka, 29, wed Jared Kushner, 30, publisher of The New York Observer and an ...
US teens have higher birth rate than other developed countries; they use birth control moreThe rate of teen births in the U.S. is at its lowest level in almost 70 years. Yet, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate is ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While still extraordinarily unlikely, the chances of survival are on the rise for infants born weighing less than 400 grams, or about the size of a potato, hints a new survey of the world's tiniest babies.Of course, ...
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