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Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body
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Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
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At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.
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People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.
Reuters
Take it easy, be happy alone.
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Nine and fourteen-month-olds prefer "individuals who treat similar others well and dissimilar others poorly."
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Thomas Jefferson pushed his daughter to succeed, while Abigal Adams cautioned her son against failure. What's a better incentive?
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A storied American pediatrician's international travels took him to Japan, where he worked with a population that never experienced postpartum depression -- possibly because new mothers regressed to babyhood for one month.
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Children's book images, NSFW? NSFGFG (German First-Graders)?
The American Academy of Pediatrics said today that it respects the decision of women to give birth at home -- on the following conditions.
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