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		<title>Early Exposure to Air Pollution Tied to Higher Risk of Hyperactivity in Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breathing in pollutants released into the air isn&#8217;t healthy for developing lungs, but a new study says it&#8217;s harmful for developing brains too. Kids exposed to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution in childhood scored higher on measures of hyperactivity at age 7, according to a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers say it’s believed to be the most comprehensive study to date on the effect of traffic-related air pollution on children’s behavior. “It appears that air pollution is part of the story of childhood behavior, but it’s not the whole story,” says the study&#8217;s lead author Nicholas Newman, director of the Pediatric Environmental Health and Lead Clinic at Cincinnati Children&#8217;s Hospital Medical Center. “We don’t know if air pollution is causing this or if it’s something else that people who live near main roads are also being exposed to.” Researchers followed 576 children from the time they were born in the Cincinnati metro area until they reached the age of 7. The children were separated into two groups — those who lived near a major highway or bus route — defined as less than four football fields away — and those who lived more than a mile away from heavily trafficked areas. Cincinnati, it turned out was an ideal location to study the long-term effects of exposure to air pollution since it sees a relatively high amount of truck traffic and has many hills and valleys that encourage pollution to linger in the area. Previous research suggested that the effect of traffic-related air pollution is greatest within a few hundred meters — a football field, for example — of the source of the pollution. About 11% of Americans live within a football field’s length of a four-lane highway, and 40% of U.S. children go to school within four football fields of a bustling highway. (MORE: Car Pollution Linked to Childhood Cancers) When the children were 7, their parents were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their kids’ behavior, including symptoms that could indicate attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87038&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ADHD May Prime Boys for Obesity</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/adhd-may-prime-boys-for-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADHD has been linked to struggles with drugs and alcohol, less schooling and more arrests, but the latest study shows it may also contribute to problems with weight as well. In the study published in Pediatrics, researchers connected the impulsive behavior that can characterize attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with the overeating that contributes to calorie overload. In the 33-year study that tracked boys with ADHD into adulthood, men who were hyperactive as children were twice as likely to have higher body-mass-index readings and rates of obesity than men who didn’t have the condition as children. Of men diagnosed with ADHD as kids, 41% were obese compared with 22% of men who didn’t have ADHD as children. The average rate of obesity for men in this age group was 24%. The researchers say they did not set out to explore the relationship between ADHD and weight; the study was designed to investigate new insights into brain-structure differences among people with ADHD. But in 2003, when researchers received a grant to perform brain MRI scans on the men to evaluate their psychiatric health, many of the study participants were too large to fit in the scanner. “One of these gentlemen really wanted to help out, but we had to squeeze him in, inch by inch,” says Dr. Francisco Xavier Castellanos, the study’s senior author and a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. (MORE: Majority of Doctors Do Not Follow Treatment Guidelines for ADHD) For practical reasons, the scientists began asking the men for height and weight measurements to see if they would fit inside the MRI machine, which has a diameter of about 2 ft. They found that nearly three times as many men from the childhood hyperactivity group couldn’t fit in the scanner — 17 men compared with six who did not have the disorder. Intrigued, they decided to systematically collect data on the men’s weight. “There had been suggestions in the past that ADHD might be related to obesity,” says Castellanos. “There were a lot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86966&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Choices Angelina Jolie Faces About Testing Her Kids for Breast Cancer Genes</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/14/angelina-jolie-faces-hard-choices-about-testing-her-kids-for-breast-cancer-genes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most women who get breast cancer each year have no family history, but Angelina Jolie’s story was different. Her mom died at age 56 of ovarian cancer, a related disease. Doing her best to make sure that her own six kids don’t lose their mother to breast cancer motivated Jolie to have a preventive double mastectomy, a process she revealed in a bold and candid op-ed in Tuesday’s New York Times. We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. As a BRCA1 carrier, Jolie stands a 50% chance of having passed the faulty gene to each of her three biological children. While that possibility can provoke tremendous anxiety in parents, most experts don&#8217;t recommend childhood genetic testing for diseases like breast cancer that don’t often affect young children. &#8220;In a typical situation, most people would counsel her to wait until her biological children are mature adolescents or young adults before discussing this with them,&#8221; says Dr. Robert Green, a medical geneticist at Harvard Medical School. &#8220;But given that she&#8217;s a public figure, it&#8217;s going to be harder to shield them.&#8221;   (MORE: Will My Son Develop Cancer? The Promise (and Pitfalls) of Sequencing Children’s Genomes) In February, both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recommended against testing a child for adult-onset diseases such as breast cancer. However, the experts who developed the statements told TIME that if parents insist on testing their kids, they should be allowed to proceed: While the earlier statements from the AAP and ACMG firmly advised against genetic testing in children to determine future risk of disease, the updated policy acknowledges that parents are the ultimate decision-makers when it comes to childhood-onset conditions. Predictive genetic testing for adult-onset conditions<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86678&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Formula Could Increase Breast-Feeding Rates</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/13/can-giving-newborns-formula-increase-breast-feeding-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the surprising ways to boost breast-feeding rates among new moms may involve formula, according to the latest research. With a growing body of evidence supporting the benefits of breast-feeding for both mom and baby, public-health experts celebrate each time a hospital receives “baby-friendly” status, which indicates the facility endorses steps that encourage breast-feeding such as not separating moms and babies after delivery and offering formula only if it’s deemed medically necessary. But a small study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests that giving newborns a little bit of formula actually helps boost breast-feeding rates. The formula primer may give moms the assurance they need to keep pursuing breast-feeding, say the study&#8217;s authors. Not surprisingly, many breast-feeding experts are taking issue with the findings, worried the results may undermine public-health messages that breast milk alone is best for babies. The study, from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), followed 40 newborn babies who had lost at least 5% of their birth weight by the time they were 36 hours old. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) notes that weight loss in an infant’s first days is typical as they become accustomed to feeding; average weight loss is about 7%. But lead author Dr. Valerie Flaherman, an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, focused on this group since other data suggests that infants who lose this much are more likely to lose more weight; when babies drop 10% of their birth weight, pediatricians become concerned that the infants may be at risk of other health problems. For the trial, Flaherman and her colleagues assigned half the babies a couple days of birth to receive two teaspoons of formula after each breast-feeding, via a syringe so as not to encourage “nipple confusion,” a condition in which a baby has trouble transitioning between breast and bottle. Mothers were instructed to discontinue the formula supplementation once their milk supply appeared, which generally takes two to five days. The other half were exclusively breast-fed unless the doctor ordered formula. (MORE:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86483&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Unit of Their Own: Addressing the Special Needs of Hospitalized Teen Cancer Patients</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/08/in-seattle-teens-and-young-adults-with-cancer-get-their-own-quarters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At her Seattle high school, Shannon Keating wears a hat to camouflage a head made bare by chemotherapy. In the hospital, surrounded by other teens her age, she&#8217;s more comfortable going bald. “I feel fine not wearing a hat because you know everyone went through the same loss,” says the 15-year-old who is being treated for stage 2 Hodgkins lymphoma. That sense of camaraderie can be critical for young adults battling cancer. It’s the inspiration behind the unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital where Shannon is being treated — the nation’s first inpatient cancer ward devoted to treating teens and young adults, a group whose survival rates have stubbornly bucked the upward trend experienced by younger and older patients. Doctors aren’t sure why that is. Is there something different about the biology of a cancer in someone in their teens or twenties? Perhaps. In one study of kids up to age 18, children older than 10 cleared a common chemotherapy drug, cyclophosphamide, from their bodies much faster than younger kids; the less a drug lingers, the less likely it is to be as effective. For Dr. Becky Johnson, medical director of the adolescent and young adult program at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the need for the new unit is both personal and professional. She was 27 and a medical resident when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. That was 17 years ago, but she still recalls how isolated she felt when she discovered that support groups consisted of women in their 60s. “There was no mechanism for finding other young patients, nothing at all,” says Johnson. “The whole time I was treated, I’d look around the waiting room for people who were young.” (MORE: Pediatricians Say Cell Phone Radiation Standards Need Another Look) The concept of creating a “medical home” for cancer patients perched between childhood and adulthood is attracting interest in other parts of the country. Hospitals in Cleveland and Los Angeles are constructing similar units, acknowledging that the young-adult demographic has long been a somewhat forgotten population in the cancer world.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86051&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Chris Christie&#8217;s Weight-Loss Surgery Demystified</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie quietly opted for weight-loss surgery in February, he chose the safest — but often least effective — procedure. Patients who undergo gastric-band surgery — Lap-Band is the trade name — can lose between a third to half of their body weight. But about 10% of patients lose nothing at all, says Dr. Philip Schauer, a bariatric surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who was not involved in Christie’s care. Before surgery, Christie weighed about 350 lb., estimates Schauer. “He’s about 150 pounds overweight so a very good result would be if he lost 75 pounds,” says Schauer. “But he would still be overweight at 275 pounds.” (MORE: Viewpoint: Chris Christie&#8217;s Weight Isn&#8217;t a Big Issue) Gastric-band surgery is usually performed laparoscopically, with surgeons cinching an adjustable silicone band around the patient’s stomach, limiting the amount of space for food. Adding saline to the band makes it tighter; in the first year after surgery, patients typically visit their physician six or so times to have the band adjusted. The snugger the band, the less hungry people feel. “They eat less because they feel full quicker,” says Schauer. Two other commonly performed weight-loss procedures typically yield more dramatic results, but they’re also more invasive. (MORE: Researchers Take a Closer Look at Weight-Loss Surgeries) Gastric bypass involves stapling the upper stomach to fashion a small stomach pouch, decreasing its size from that of a football to a golf ball. A portion of the intestines is bypassed so fewer calories are absorbed. Another procedure, sleeve gastrectomy, makes the stomach smaller by removing the outer part and reducing the stomach pouch to the size of a banana. For Christie — a public figure who didn’t have the luxury of down time — gastric band surgery was the most sensible choice. “He had to go back to work very fast. He was not going to take three or four days out of work for a bigger surgery,” says Dr. Alfonso Torquati, director of the Duke Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86252&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s Saliva Can Strengthen Babies&#8217; Immune Systems</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/06/moms-saliva-can-strengthen-babies-immune-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picking up a dropped pacifier and sucking it clean may help infants to be better germ fighters. The practice not only protects babies from the nasty microbes on the floor, but passes on good bugs that can lower the risk of allergies, according to a new study from Swedish researchers published in Pediatrics. “Parental sucking of their infant’s pacifier is associated with a reduced risk of allergy development and an altered oral flora in their child,&#8221; they write. Infants whose parents use their tongues to burnish binkies were more likely to have different strains of bacteria in their gut, and with more helpful bacteria populating the intestines, the less likely the babies were to develop allergies and eczema. When the 184 infants in the study were four months old, the scientists collected saliva samples to determine which types of bacteria resided in their guts. At six months old, parents reported whether their infants used pacifiers and how moms and dads cleaned them. The researchers checked back in with the parents when their babies were 18 and 36 months old to see if the infants had developed allergies and when the first symptoms appeared. (MORE: Bacteria on Binkies: A Recipe for Crankiness) By 18 months, 25% of the babies had eczema, 15% had developed some type of food allergy and 5% had been diagnosed with asthma. But the children whose parents sucked on their pacifiers to sanitize them were one-third less likely to have eczema, which is considered the earliest sign of allergies, at 18 months than kids whose parents relied on other techniques — such as rinsing the binkies in tap water or boiling the pacifier. By the time the kids were 3 years old, those who had their pacifiers sucked clean were still considerably less likely to develop eczema than kids whose parents employed other cleaning strategies. And it didn&#8217;t seem that parents were passing on more germs or infections to their little ones with the practice; regardless of how a parent cleaned a pacifier, all of the babies<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86102&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pediatricians Issue New Home-Birth Guidelines &#8212; and Rattle Some Midwives</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/29/pediatricians-new-home-birth-guidelines-rattle-some-midwives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, doctors aren’t thrilled with the idea of home birth. And while less than 1% of U.S. babies are ushered into the world at home, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) decided to collaborate on guidelines they say should govern home births, which are attended mostly by midwives. Many of the recommendations, published in the academy&#8217;s journal, Pediatrics, are fairly straightforward: at least one person at the birth should be responsible for tending to the newborn infant; that person should also be trained in infant CPR. Medical equipment should be tested before the delivery. A phone line should be available; while you’re at it, check the weather forecast too, in case complications arise and a trip to the hospital is necessary. In case of emergency, have a plan to transfer the laboring mom to a hospital. And do all the stuff that nurses do in the hospital to brand-new babies: monitor their temperature and heart rates, keep them warm and cozy, administer vitamin K and heel-prick newborn screening tests that are sent to outside labs for processing, among other things. “No matter where a baby is born, they deserve the same standard of care,” says Dr. Kristi Watterberg, a neonatologist and professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico who is the lead author of the AAP’s home birth guidelines. More controversial is the academy&#8217;s advice that pediatricians endorse only midwives who are trained and cleared by the American Midwifery Certification Board. Midwives accredited by this board typically attend deliveries at hospitals and birthing centers. That position has upset certified professional midwives, who deliver the majority of babies born at home in this country but are accredited by a different body — the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). “The assumption is that one type of midwife is better than the other,” says Melissa Cheyney, an associate professor of medical anthropology at Oregon State University and a practicing certified professional midwife who oversees the research division for the Midwives Alliance of North America, or MANA, which represents certified<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85749&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: American Girl&#8217;s &#8220;The Care &amp; Keeping of You 2&#8243; Tackles Puberty</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/26/qa-the-care-keeping-of-you-2-guides-girls-through-puberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sequel to the popular The Care and Keeping of You, which guided preteen girls on buying bras, healthy eating habits and dealing with their periods, ventures into the hormone and angst-ridden world of adolescents. In the follow-up, published by purveyor of wholesome dolls American Girl, Dr. Cara Natterson continues the tradition of offering kids some sound advice for navigating their trying times. If you&#8217;re sitting at the dinner table and someone says or does something that seems unreasonable, for example, Natterson recommends excusing yourself from the table. Then work off that frustration with some jumping jacks, scribble in a journal, strum a guitar or scream into a pillow — anything to help channel the anger and restore a sense of control. “You have to identify in the good moments what you are going to do in the bad moments,” says Natterson. And the advice isn&#8217;t just for the girls: “Parents read this book as much as kids,” she says. It’s true. A couple months ago, I got my hands on a copy of the original while bunking overnight in a friend’s daughter’s room. I was riveted — and talked to Natterson about her perspective on why The Care and Keeping of You has been the literary gateway for so many girls hitting puberty. What has changed since the original book was published in 1998? The biggest change is the online world. In 1998, the Internet was very different. It was not nearly as pervasive. There were no smartphones. The way in which kids socialize and the way in which they get their information is really different now than when the book came out. And girls and boys are going through puberty a little bit earlier so they want this information at a younger age. What’s the main difference between the two books? The original The Care and Keeping of You 1 is a big, broad overview of how to grow up healthfully. We cover nutrition, exercise, hygiene, breasts [Although Natterson didn't author the original volume, she updated it in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85204&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Social Networks Influence Parents&#8217; Decision to Vaccinate</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/15/how-social-networks-influence-a-parents-decision-to-vaccinate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At her son’s preschool near Seattle, Robin Haight is a foot soldier in the vaccine wars. She arranged for a pediatrician to speak about vaccines at the home of a school parent. She put up posters — she calls them “gentle propaganda” — that touted the importance of immunization in stopping the spread of disease. Her husband helped create a spreadsheet to track which children at the school are missing which vaccinations. Some parents have said that Haight’s provaccination message has no place at preschool, that it’s disrespectful and patronizing, that the decision to vaccinate a child is nobody else’s business. One mother got so emotional that she broke out in hives. But Haight thinks a conversation is critical, and the latest research published in the journal Pediatrics backs her up. “I’m just trying to let people know that if you don’t vaccinate your children, it might affect other children’s health,” says Haight. “It directly affects a community of young children. How do we not talk about this?” (MORE: Jenny McCarthy, Vaccine Expert? A Quarter of Parents Trust Celebrities) With so much confusing and even misleading information about vaccine safety available on the Internet, it&#8217;s no surprise that parents are influenced by their friends&#8217; attitudes when it comes to immunizing their kids. In the study, researchers surveyed 196 parents of children 18 months or younger in King County — Haight’s stomping ground — which has a vaccination rate that’s typically below the national average and has been gripped by a pertussis epidemic, along with areas in Vermont, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the parents in the study, 126 followed the nationally recommended childhood-vaccination schedule from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 70 other parents forged their own paths: 28 delayed vaccines, 37 partially vaccinated and five didn’t vaccinate at all. At least 95% of parents in both groups indicated that they had consulted their “people network” for insight into making vaccination decisions. Parents reported they paid the most attention to their spouse or partner’s opinion. Pediatricians were next<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84576&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Reports Success in Discouraging Elective Early Deliveries</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/10/study-reports-success-in-discouraging-elective-pre-term-deliveries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To discourage planned early deliveries, hospitals are banning moms from scheduling births before 39 weeks without a medical reason. And it&#8217;s working. Several years ago when Dr. Scott Berns spoke with colleagues about slashing rates of early elective deliveries at their hospitals, he met with considerable indifference. “They’d say, This is not a problem for me,” says Berns, deputy medical director at the March of Dimes, which helped develop a “toolkit” for hospitals committed to discouraging women with healthy pregnancies from giving birth before 39 weeks. “And I’d say, Look at your data.” MORE: Study: Children Born Too Early Have Lower Reading and Math Scores Ultimately, 25 hospitals in the five states that account for 38% of U.S. births agreed to participate in a study to gauge the effectiveness of the toolkit in steering women and their doctors away from scheduling early inductions or C-sections for otherwise healthy pregnancies. The hospitals succeeded in cutting the rate of early elective deliveries by 83%. Researchers have now set their sights on 100 more hospitals around the country, hoping to reverse the trend toward scheduling elective delivery as early as 37 weeks into a pregnancy. In some ways, women&#8217;s desire to deliver at 37 weeks is understandable, since many pregnancy guides and professional organizations define 37 weeks as &#8220;full term,&#8221; leading women to believe they can deliver safely any time after that. Babies delivered before 37 weeks are considered premature and can have trouble breathing, but doctors are increasingly aware that even at 37 weeks, babies aren’t done developing in utero. Early-term babies, born between 37 weeks and 39 weeks, are at higher risk for infections and are more likely to be hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit, and studies show that these babies have twice the infant mortality rate as those born after 39 weeks. MORE: Who&#8217;s Too Posh to Push? Early Cesarean Section Rates Aren&#8217;t Moms&#8217; Fault Berns and his colleagues conducted the research, which was published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, to see if a concerted effort to reduce<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84294&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not All Screens Are Equal When It Comes to Obesity Risk: TV May Have Greatest Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in front of a screen can increase the risk of obesity, but TV seems to have a larger effect on weight than computers or video games. Computers, televisions, smartphones and tablets are all responsible for keeping more kids more sedentary and mesmerized by a screen, but a new study in Pediatrics found some surprising differences among these devices and their relationship to childhood obesity. It turns out that only television — in particular, paying close attention to what’s on the tube — is associated with heavier kids. In a study of young teens, 14-year-old boys who reported paying the most attention to what was playing on television weighed 14.2 lb. more than boys who reported paying the least attention. For girls, the difference was 13.5 lb. The study, conducted by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital, took an intensive look at what media 91 teens between the ages of 13 and 15 use most and how they used these devices. The scientists signaled the kids at random times during the study via smartphone to report their activities — were they playing sports, or doing homework, or surfing the Web? If they were doing multiple activities at once — texting and watching television, for example — which activity were they focused on? Researchers also recorded height and weight measurements of the participants and calculated the kids’ BMI, or body mass index. They found that teens spent more than three hours a day watching television — more time than they spent with any other sort of screen — and that those teens who paid the most attention to the shows they were watching had the highest BMI. Meanwhile, paying close attention to video games or computers was not linked with weighing more. (MORE: Should Parents Lose Custody of Their Extremely Obese Kids?) Why? While watching television, says Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital and the study’s senior author, kids are bombarded with advertising for high-calorie snack foods, and at the same time, their<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84092&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smaller Dishes Could Cut Childhood Obesity</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/08/size-matters-smaller-dishes-could-cut-childhood-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smaller plates, fewer calories? The latest study shows one way to fight childhood obesity may be to shrink the size of the dinner plate. According research published in the journal Pediatrics, first-graders served themselves more and downed more calories when they used a large plate instead of a smaller one. Simply advising parents — and kids — to eat less and exercise more hasn’t turned the childhood obesity epidemic around. And it&#8217;s obvious why: high-calorie foods are plentiful, not to mention sugary beverages that can also pack on the pounds. Portion sizes have ballooned over the past several decades. And at least one study reported that plate sizes have increased too. With one in three U.S. kids now defined as overweight or obese, researchers at Temple University decided to study how effective shrinking plate sizes could be in keeping appetites in check. The theory made sense; previous research found that adults pile on more food and eat more calories when their bowls are bigger. Would the same hold true for children, wondered Jennifer Orlet Fisher, an associate professor of public health at Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education. She and her colleagues zeroed in on two classes of first-graders at a private school in north Philadelphia. Over eight days, the 42 students helped themselves to a buffet set up by the researchers. It was self-serve, a plus for the 7-year-olds, and the menu stayed essentially the same to eliminate the possibility that kids might load up on mac and cheese but go easy on sautéed kale. Their choices: penne or chicken nuggets, applesauce and mixed veggies. (MORE: Is Self-Help the Secret to Reducing Childhood Obesity?) On half the days, the kids used plates that were 7 ¼ inches in diameter — about the size of a salad plate — and on the other days they were provided with dishes the size of a dinner plate at 10 ¼-inches in diameter. Their plates were weighed before and after they ate. The kids served themselves 90 calories more on days when they used<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84089&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young Kids Know How to Share but Choose Not To</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/04/young-kids-know-how-to-share-but-chose-not-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to share is one thing, but getting children to do it is another. From early on, moms and dads drill the importance of taking turns and sharing toys and other bounty into their young charges; sharing, after all, shows caring. But as any social scientist can tell you, the gap between knowing how to act and actually doing it can be vast, which was confirmed by the latest study on how young children learn the rules of sharing. The good news first: even kids as young as age 3 understand that sharing is important. The bad news? They don’t really care. Although preschoolers can appreciate sharing as a social norm, they don’t really embrace the principle until they’re at least 7, according to the study, published in the journal PLOS One. “Sharing is a hot topic,” says Craig Smith, lead author and a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Michigan’s department of psychology. “If you look at studies that show what kids fight about, it’s sharing. Given a resource and the chance to split it equally, they don’t share.” Smith&#8217;s is the first study to ask children both about their sharing sentiments in theory and — regardless of how they felt about it — whether they did it in practice. “We were able to reveal the gap between what kids say they want to do and what they do,” says Smith. The researchers used a childhood favorite — stickers — to reach their conclusion. To pump up the desirability factor, they used scratch-and-sniff varieties. “We tried to up the excitement level with the smell,” explains Smith. When he gave a group of 102 children ages 3 to 8 these stickers and asked them their opinion of sharing, all of the kids said they should divide the stickers equally and that other kids should do the same. But when the proverbial push came to shove, the younger kids warmed to sharing only in theory. It wasn’t until they reached ages 7 to 8 that they practiced what they preached. (MORE: How<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83838&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Mom Asks Mattel to Make Party Supplies Featuring &#8220;Barbies of Color&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/03/a-mom-asks-mattel-to-make-party-supplies-featuring-barbies-of-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many almost 5-year-olds, Georgia Braithwaite had her heart set on a Barbie birthday party, with all the trappings: Barbie plates and cups and napkins and a banner or two. Like many a doting mom, Karen Greene Braithwaite set about securing the goods necessary to host such a bash. The Braithwaites are African-American, so online, Karen Braithwaite typed in “African-American Barbie party supplies.” Her search yielded nothing. Georgia, seated next to her, was perplexed. Then Braithwaite tried “black Barbie party supplies.” Still nothing. The first African-American doll, Christie, strutted onto the scene in 1968, and Mattel, Barbie&#8217;s manufacturer, features Barbies representing more than 45 nationalities. Were they leaving these dozens of groups out of its Barbie-themed party supplies, which seem to focus only on the classic blue-eyed, buxum blonde? Braithwaite found herself telling a white lie to Georgia, proud owner of at least six black Barbie dolls. “It was a little embarrassing for Mommy,” says Braithwaite, a human-resources manager who lives in Harlem. “I said, &#8216;Oh, Mommy clicked on the wrong thing.&#8217; She was starting to get upset. I told her that I’d find it, but I started realizing that it may not exist.” In previous generations, black children — or any minority, for that matter — simply made do. Braithwaite recalls her own mother coloring Santa’s skin brown; ditto for Holly Hobby’s face on the lunchbox that Braithwaite carried as a girl. But this is 2013, when savvy complainers take to the Internet. A friend reminded her that recently, a 13-year-old girl triumphed in persuading Hasbro to make Easy-Bake Ovens in gender-neutral hues. So last month, Braithwaite posted a petition on Change.org asking people to request that Mattel endorse party supplies “featuring Barbies of color.” She recorded an adorable video featuring Georgia (in which her 2-year-old brother has a photobomb cameo) and has collected more than 3,400 signers. (MORE: ‘Bright Young Things’: Victoria’s Secret’s Line Under Fire) On Mattel&#8217;s social media page, the company tweeted two replies to people who brought the issue to their attention: “We work closely with our partners<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83616&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Self-Help the Secret to Reducing Childhood Obesity?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/01/is-self-help-the-secret-to-reducing-childhood-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of strategies to lose weight, but which work best for children? One in three U.S. kids weighs too much, according to the latest government statistics, but parents don&#8217;t have too many appealing options when it comes to helping their children slim down. The gold standard treatment for childhood obesity that&#8217;s typically endorsed by weight-loss specialists involves six months of weekly clinic visits lasting 90 minutes each during which families learn the basics of nutrition and are introduced to ideas such as  &#8221;stimulus control&#8221; — or bringing only healthy food into their homes lessen the temptation from more calorie-ridden, unhealthy products. But many parents can’t afford the time or money that requires. MORE: Cutting Out Soda Curbs Children&#8217;s Weight Gain, Studies Show Now researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) say parents can help their kids lose weight without such costly and time-consuming intervention by relying on a self-help “coaching” method that requires only bi-weekly guidance from a pediatrician. In a study published in the journal Pediatrics, the scientists found that using the self-help model resulted in a 12-year-old of average height losing five pounds over the five-month study period compared to children who received no guidance about weight loss. Those kids who got no treatment during the study period actually gained weight: a 12-year-old of average height put on five pounds. “We saw significant losses in the guided self-help kids while the control group continued to gain weight,” says Kerri Boutelle, lead author and a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at UCSD. The more flexible approach — which reduced face-to-face treatment time from about 36 hours over six months to less than five hours over five months — could potentially help more families and broaden the reach of childhood-obesity treatment, say the study authors. “This is the first time this kind of model has been tested and it looks promising,” says Boutelle. MORE: BPA Linked with Obesity in Kids and Teens Fifty families with overweight or obese children between the ages of 8 and 12 participated in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83379&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Bright Young Things&#8217;: Victoria&#8217;s Secret&#8217;s Line Under Fire</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/29/bright-young-things-victorias-secrets-line-under-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diana Cherry’s daughters are ages 2, 5 and 6, way too young to consider flaunting lacy thongs that beckon “Call Me” on the crotch. But Cherry, a stay-at-home mom in Seattle, is still outraged over a recent line of Victoria’s Secret lingerie and clothing that more than a few mothers suspect is targeting tweens and teens with its neon shades, girlish lace and plenty of bling. “This is not about my kids,” says Cherry, who launched a Facebook page and a petition on Change.org urging Victoria’s Secret to pull its Bright Young Things line that features suggestive messages on panties and willowy models that some parents suspect aren&#8217;t old enough to have a driver&#8217;s license. More than 13,000 people have signed her petition. &#8220;Of course, I care about my daughters, but I&#8217;m angry about the messages young girls in general are getting. I want girls to grow up feeling confident to be who they are and not sex objects.&#8221; How successful was Cherry&#8217;s campaign? That depends on how you chose to interpret the fact that Bright Young Things thongs, hoodies and capris — part of the company&#8217;s PINK collection, launched in 2004 to target co-eds — is no longer available on the Victoria’s Secret website. Limited Brands, the parent company for Victoria’s Secret, noted in a statement released to journalists that its new “pre-summer” line arrived in stores and online this week, replacing Bright Young Things. In any case, the company says that PINK and any items associated with it are aimed at college-aged women, not tweens. According to the statement from the Limited Brands: Despite rumors, we have no plans to introduce a collection for younger women. “Bright Young Things” was a slogan used in conjunction with the college spring break tradition. The Bright Young Things campaign is only the latest retail effort to raise ire among parents about the impression these messages leave on young girls in particular. In February, mom bloggers hammered footwear brand Skechers for its &#8220;Daddy&#8217;$ Money&#8221; campaign surrounding a line of wedge sneakers imprinted with lips,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83310&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Quality Pre-Kindergarten the Key to a Better Vocabulary?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/28/is-quality-pre-kindergarten-the-key-to-a-better-vocabulary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preschool might seem like nothing more than child&#8217;s play &#8212; a riot of high-spirited kids engaged in finger painting, blockbuilding and games. But a new study of Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) free pre-kindergarten program — which relies on a predetermined curriculum and actively coaches teachers — found that participation significantly boosts kindergarten readiness. Children tracked by researchers at Harvard University made moderate to large gains in language, literacy and math over the course of the preschool year, and they showed improvement on emotional development and executive function — skills such as paying attention and memory — even though the curriculum targeted only cognitive skills. Their gains were “above and beyond the effects of just getting older,” says lead author Christina Weiland, incoming assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Education. She was at Harvard when she led the study, which was published in the journal Child Development. “When you compare Boston’s program to seven other programs that have had an impact on academic evaluations, Boston’s program had the largest effects on vocabulary and math.” (MORE: How Would Preschool for All Work: Is It All About Play or ABCs?) What made the difference? Everything from teacher instruction to teacher pay. Nationally, preschool teachers are typically paid poorly. But Boston treats its public preschool teachers the same as its kindergarten teachers: they receive the same same pay and are required to meet the same educational criteria as educators. The curriculum itself is also unique; it followed specific guidelines that taught academic skills through a play-based approach, which most educators agree is the appropriate way to structure preschool. And teachers benefited from the advice of “master” teachers who were available to help them troubleshoot. Weiland and co-author Hiro Yoshikawa studied two groups of more than 2,000 preschoolers; half attended pre-kindergarten in 2008-2009, the year before they began kindergarten, and the younger, remaining half attended a year later when they reached the required age. In Boston, public preschool is available is open to any child, regardless of income; Massachusetts is one of eight or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83220&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Day: Inspiring Children to Give Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Halloween, Caleb Dawson, 18, organized a different kind of trick-or-treating experience. Instead of candy, he and 350 kids from 19 schools near Seattle collected 12,562 pounds of supplies for local food banks. He and classmates at Federal Way High School have also “adopted” a village in Sierra Leone, raising money to help alleviate hunger and support education there. His school has been his community-service hub, but on Wednesday, Dawson will play hooky. He’s going to We Day at Seattle’s Key Arena, where he and 15,000 other students will have their commitment to doing good reinforced by Jennifer Hudson, who will sing and talk about her campaign to end violence, and basketball great Magic Johnson, who will speak about the battle against HIV-AIDS. It&#8217;s the first time the Canadian-based event will be held in the U.S., and Nelly Furtado, Martin Sheen and Martin Luther King III will be there too — all part of a worldwide effort led by the Free the Children charity to inspire kids to make the world a better place. What can a bunch of kids do? A lot, it turns out. The students attending the event have already raised money for a well and water purification system in Ethiopia, participated in the March of Dimes Walk for Babies and volunteered at a Christmas party for foster children. We Day is the brainchild of Canadian Craig Kielburger, whose commitment to community service began in 1995 when, at 12 years old, he read about a Pakistani child who was sold into slavery and later killed for speaking out. Appalled, he rallied 11 of his seventh-grade classmates to help him host car washes and bake sales to raise money for children in danger. Kielburger and his brother now run Free the Children, which has hosted We Day in Canada for the past six years, and with its first foray into the U.S. this year, they hope to make it an annual event here as well. “When we started in Canada, youth were the least likely group to volunteer,”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83106&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Choice or No Choice? North Dakota Wants to Ban Abortion for Fetal Abnormalities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testing for fetal abnormalities can alert expectant parents to potential health problems to come. And it&#8217;s the parents who should decide on how to act on those results, right? Not necessarily. In North Dakota, the governor is considering signing two anti-abortion bills that would be among the most restrictive in the nation. The state House and Senate have endorsed separate legislation that prohibits abortions after six weeks and bans them for reasons of gender or fetal abnormalities. If signed, the bills would take the decision of what to do when a pregnancy is not developing as expected out of the hands of parents. Abortion-rights advocates are expected to fight any new laws in court, elevating the debate in North Dakota to the level of political theater. The situation unspooling there is certainly dramatic: while states enacted 43 new restrictions on abortion last year, North Dakota’s effort to ban abortion even for conditions incompatible with life — such as anencephaly in which parts of the brain and skull don’t form, or Tay-Sachs disease, a degenerative condition that paralyzes babies and typically prevents them from reaching their third birthday — reaches farther than any state has in limiting a woman&#8217;s ability to terminate a pregnancy. The fetal abnormalities bill would ban abortion due to “any defect, disease or disorder that is inherited genetically.” It also extends to any physical disfigurement. In essence, it means that women in North Dakota who are told they may be carrying a baby with Down syndrome, spina bifida, or a fatal condition will have no choice but to have the baby; they would no longer be able to legally end their pregnancies. (As it stands, women in North Dakota don&#8217;t have a ton of options: as noted in a Time cover story by Kate Pickert, it&#8217;s one of four states with just one abortion clinic.) In addition to the medical reasons for aborting, expectant mothers may decide to end such pregnancies for a variety of reasons; in some cases, mothers may feel psychologically or emotionally unable to care<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82914&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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