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Recalled: Girls' sandals from Stride Rite

(BabyCenter News) — Stride Rite has announced a recall of about 7,500 pairs of girls' sandals in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).The metal flower on the shoe can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. The company ... [Published BabyCenter - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Stride Rite Corporation, Babycenter, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Detachment

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

World Health Organization

Tobacco ads spark teen smoking, study finds

(HealthDay News) — The more tobacco advertising teenagers see, the more likely they are to start smoking, according to a new study.Every 10 tobacco ads that teens view increases their risk of starting to smoke by nearly 40 percent and boosts their chances ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Smoking, Tobacco, Kiel (Germany), infections, World Health Organization

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Flu shots at school boost vaccination rates

(HealthDay News) — Offering flu shots at elementary schools could reduce the number of flu cases and deaths among children, a new study suggests.Vaccination is the most effective way to protect children aged 6 months and older against seasonal flu, but ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccine, University of Rochester, University of California Davis

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

Recalled: Country Life iron supplement bottles

(BabyCenter News) — Country Life has announced a recall of about 1,100 Target-Mins iron supplement bottles in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).The packaging is not child-resistant as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Supplement, Iron, Babycenter

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Kathleen Sebelius

Congress won't intervene in girl's lung transplant case

(HealthDay News) — At a Congressional hearing Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held fast in her refusal to intervene in the case of a 10-year-old girl who has end-stage cystic fibrosis and is waiting for a lung transplan ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Kathleen Sebelius, Cystic Fibrosis, NBC News Channel

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Black and Hispanic obesity related to infancy

(HealthDay News) — Certain risk factors during infancy may help explain the higher rate of obesity among black and Hispanic children, according to a new study.Rapid infant weight gain, early introduction of solid foods, inadequate sleep and a lack of ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Obesity, Hispanics, Overweight, Weight Gain

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Frozen berry mix linked to hepatitis A outbreak

(HealthDay News) — A frozen berry and pomegranate seed mix sold by Costco has been linked to an outbreak of acute hepatitis A that has sickened at least 30 people in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California, federal health officials say.The ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: infectious hepatitis, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Recalled: Musical Easter chicks from Fred Meyer

(BabyCenter News) — Fred Meyer has announced a recall of about 1,000 "Chicken Dance" Easter chicks in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).The chick plays music that can reach decibel levels that exceed the standards for toy ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Fred Meyer, Babycenter, Batch Number, Consumer Product Safety Commission

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Kids with ADHD may not process emotions during sleep

(HealthDay News) — Parts of the brain thought to support consolidation of emotional memories during sleep are less active in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study.This deficit in sleep-related emotional ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: ADHD, Memory, neurobehavioral, Hyperactivity

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

ADHD medications not tied to drug, alcohol abuse

(Reuters Health) — Taking Ritalin and other drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) doesn't affect a child's chances of trying or abusing alcohol and drugs later in life, a new review suggests.Researchers pooled data from 15 studies ... [Published BabyCenter - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: ADHD, Stimulant, Drugs, Steve Lee

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Recalled: Vive La Fete pajamas

(BabyCenter News) — Vive La Fete has announced a recall of about 710 pajama sets for babies and children in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).The pajamas fail to meet federal flammability standards for children's sleepwear, ... [Published BabyCenter - May 31 2013]

Entities: Babycenter, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Flammable, El Salvador

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"Human studies are starting to confirm animal studies that show BPA can disrupt energy storage and energy metabolism" said Li

More evidence links BPA to childhood obesity [Published BabyCenter - Jun 14 2013]

"Data from this study support this measure, because only exposure to tobacco advertisements predicted smoking initiation, which cannot be attributed to a general receptiveness to marketing" they wrote in a journal news release

Tobacco ads spark teen smoking, study finds [Published BabyCenter - Jun 14 2013]

"The flu is a disease with high probability of reaching epidemic levels even though we have an effective vaccine. Our goal is to find ways to ensure that the best prevention is as accessible as possible" study author Byung-Kwang Yoo, an associate professorprofessor of public healthhealth sciences at the University of California Davis, said in a university...

Flu shots at school boost vaccination rates [Published BabyCenter - Jun 12 2013]

"We know that by the age of 2, black and Hispanic children have close to double the rate of obesity of white children in the United States" Dr. Elsie Taveras, chief of general pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, said in a hospital news release

Black and Hispanic obesity related to infancy [Published BabyCenter - Jun 05 2013]