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Don’t get us wrong: We’re definitely fans of modern, trendy baby names — especially the weird and wonderful monikers celebrities somehow keep coming up with these days. But there’s also definitely a place in the baby-name world for the old-fashioned gems. We don’t mean old-fashioned ie archaic; going too old-school can lead you to some very, um, interesting choices (hats […]
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Actor and country music singer Jana Kramer still wonders if her husband’s vasectomy was the right decision for their family. Her husband, Mike Caussin, is a former NFL player. The couple have two children: Jolie Rae, 3, and Jace Joseph, 6 months. On June 1, the Whine Down podcast host talked with Us Weekly at the iHeart Radio Wango Tango […]
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Most people think of optimism as a good thing—a positive outlook in challenging circumstances. But in reality, it’s a psychological state that can be “contagious” in a bad way. A new study, published in the journal Psycho-Oncology, details how a seriously ill patient’s optimism can impact a clinician’s survival prognosis in palliative care conversations. Senior author Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., […]
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A strong majority of Americans view child abuse and neglect as a public health problem in the United States, a sentiment shared across populations with 81% of Hispanics, 76% of non-Hispanic whites, 74% of African-Americans and 67% of Asians in agreement, according to a new survey commissioned by Research!America and the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). […]
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The vast majority of measles cases in Europe were reported in unvaccinated patients, and children younger than two years old were at a higher risk of dying from measles than older patients, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). Presenting author Dr Emmanuel Robesyn of the European Centre for Disease Prevention […]
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All children have moments of moodiness, but family medicine doctors and pediatricians may doubt their abilities to tell the difference between normal irritability and possibly bigger issues, according to Penn State researchers. When the researchers interviewed a group of health care providers, they found that the primary care providers and pediatricians were less confident than the child and adolescent psychiatrists […]
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