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Kids Not So Stuck on Sugary Breakfast Cereals, Study Finds

Getting kids to happily eat nutritious, low-sugar breakfast cereals may be child's play, researchers report. A new study finds that children will gladly chow down on low-sugar cereals if they're given a selection of choices at br [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Kids rally to save tigers

Kids pitched in to save the tiger, which is threatened by habitat destruction, increased poaching and denotification of protected areas. The Sanctuary Tiger Programme and Save Our Tigers organized the 'Kids For Tigers' and as par [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Facing Backward: Keeping Kids Safe In Cars

The leading cause of death for toddlers in the United States isn't poisoning, medical ailments or accidents around the home. By far the biggest killer of children is car crashes. On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Willow Smith, Role Model For Kids

The 10-year-old dashing daughter of Will and Jada Smith is doing well in the music industry. The young singer, Willow Smith, has stated that she wants to do well in life so that she can be an inspiration to kids. Her song track, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Kids in day care catch more bugs now, fewer later

Young children who attend large day care facilities suffer more respiratory and ear infections as toddlers than kids who spend their days at home, but develop fewer such illnesses during their grade-school years, a new study sugges [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Register kids' vaccinations: health experts

cCanada needs a national vaccination registry so no child misses out on being immunized, a public health group says. The Canadian Public Health Association says a registry would help the government track how many people across the countr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Feds launch kids safety site for tech-savvy parents

Parents now have a one-stop portal for everything from toy safety to vaccinations on a new government website that launched Friday. The site, healthycanadians.gc.ca/kids, features information from five government departments covering eve [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Concerns about kids' medicines

New research is rekindling concerns about the safety of some popular over-the-counter liquid medications for children. H. Shonna Yin of the New York University School of Medicine and colleagues studied the dosing directions and measuring [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Some Kids Are Using Cooking Spice to Get High

A commonly used cooking spice was doing more than adding flavor to your favorite holiday goodies. Some kids were using nutmeg as a hallucinogenic to get high. Kids were sharing ways to get high on social websites like Facebook. Dru [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Thousand of kids living with problem drinkers

The study, presented at a drug and alcohol conference in Canberra today, reveals 24 per cent of parents reported heavy drinking behaviour. The report's co-author, Dr Lucy Burns, says children often pick up negative drinking patterns [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Toys for kids, from kids

Austin's annual Children Giving to Children parade marched down Congress Avenue, Saturday. The rumble of dozens of Harley-Davidson motorcycles kicked off this year's event. Floats and balloons moved up the avenue, including [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Fears for kids' health as sports programmes are axed

Teachers fear that children will get fatter and lazier after the government axed sports programmes at schools across Macclesfield. The School Sports Partnership scheme, created 10 years ago by the Labour government, use [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Body scanners' effect on kids worries Urban

Right, a female traveler, front, receives instruction from a Transportation Security Administration officer, center, on the correct position for a full-body scan at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday. There are new requir [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Kids on the block wear bruises proudly

Tim Brent has suffered countless bruises, broken fingers and once nearly lost his hearing after getting in the way of a puck. But the one blocked shot that the Toronto Maple Leafs forward will never forget was when his shin pad was crump [...]