Ways to Make Summer Entertaining Fun

Ways to Make Summer Entertaining Fun
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The goal of summer entertaining is to have fun, but when you are hosting dozens of people at your home, often “fun” is the last thing that comes to mind. After all, before your guests arrive there’s cleaning, cooking and organizing to be [...]

Spain court will study challenge to abortion law

MADRID – Spain’s highest court has agreed to study whether a new abortion law allowing the procedure without restrictions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional.
With the law due to take effect July 5, the Constitutional Court on Wednesday gave the government and Parliament three day to present arguments as to whether it [...]

SAfrica sees rise in post-circumcision deaths

JOHANNESBURG – South African health officials said Tuesday they are alarmed by the rise in deaths among men who have had botched traditional circumcisions, after 39 young men died in the last month after undergoing the rite of passage into manhood.
Health officials estimate that as many as six young men have died every weekend in [...]

US Supreme Court lets suits proceed in Pfizer Nigeria case

WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by Pfizer, which sought to end lawsuits by Nigerian families who accuse the pharmaceutical giant of testing a new antibiotic on their children without proper consent.
not hearing or commenting on the appeal, the justices let stand a US appellate court ruling that [...]

Heavy women’s miscarriage risk higher after IVF

LONDON – Overweight women have a much higher risk of a miscarriage after having in-vitro fertilization compared with slim women, new research says.
Doctors have long known that heavy women are more prone to having a miscarriage and suffering other complications after becoming pregnant naturally, but there has been conflicting data over whether that was also [...]

Family-centered rounds more common, obstacles remain

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many hospital pediatric wards have moved from conducting traditional "rounds" to a newer, family-oriented form of the practice — but obstacles still remain, a new study finds.
Traditionally, hospital rounds have been "provider-oriented," with doctors, doctors-in-training (residents and medical students), and other members of the medical team discussing patients' [...]

Cancer survivors are often parents of young children

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than 1.5 million cancer survivors in the United States are parents living with children younger than age 18, according to a study published online today in the journal Cancer.
The researchers hope this figure — calculated for the first time — will help make health care providers more [...]

Smoking around kids exacts a high toll: studies

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – American kids can breathe a sigh of relief, according to a study out today in the journal Pediatrics that finds their exposure to second-hand smoke at home has dropped significantly since the mid-1990s.
But two other reports in the journal show that early-life exposure could lead to behavioral and [...]

Kids With Coordination Disorder More Likely to Be Overweight

MONDAY, June 28 — Children with a condition known as developmental coordination disorder are at greater risk of being overweight or obese than other youngsters, a new study finds.

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD), affects about one in 20 school-aged children and is characterized by coordination problems, including difficulty with fine and [...]

Combo Vaccine Raises Risk of Fever-Related Seizures in Kids

MONDAY, June 28 — Toddlers who receive the combination MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella and varicella) vaccine are at higher risk of having a febrile seizure a week to 10 days after receiving the shot than children who get the MMR and varicella (chicken pox) vaccines separately at the same [...]

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