Maggie Fox, NBC News Obese kids as young as 8 years old already have dangerous damage to their hearts, researchers reported on Tuesday. Imaging scans of their hearts show a thickening of the muscle — a sign of strain that […]
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is enhancing its efforts to ensure children are safely secured while traveling California’s roadways. The CHP has partnered with the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to implement the Children Held in Proper Place Every […]
Ruchika Tulshyan, Forbes Offering paid maternity and paternity leave is one part of advancing women at work. The larger challenge is to make it culturally acceptable–to not penalize employees– for taking it. Amazon just announced a monumental shift in its […]
Carina Storrs, CNN Food companies have been increasing their advertising to children for chips and other junk foods, even as marketing of healthy snacks such as yogurt has not kept pace, according to a report released on Monday. About 40% […]
Kim Mulford, USA Today Authorities are urging parents to carefully go through the candy their children collected while trick-or-treating as there have been reports of needles and pins found in Halloween candy. In New Jersey, a Facebook post quickly went […]
Eric Baculinao, NBC BEIJING — China has ended its one-child policy and will allow all couples to have two children, marking a dramatic change by the country’s ruling Communist Party after more than three decades. The liberalization of family planning […]
Yahoo Parenting A University of North Carolina children’s health clinic was rebranded the Krispy Kreme Challenge Children’s Specialty Clinic on Oct. 14. In the grand tradition of Jobing.com Arena and the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, the University of North Carolina’s […]
Dana Ford, CNN A student slammed to the ground by a South Carolina school resource officer “bears some responsibility,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. The student’s violent arrest was captured in videos that went viral and sparked widespread […]
Christina Palladino, WISN MILWAUKEE —A hot new toy is being stolen from kids across the country, and it’s now happening in Milwaukee. WISN 12 News reporter Christina Palladino spoke to a mom whose two kids were held up at gunpoint […]
Ashley Killough, CNN Raising the retirement age, implementing means-testing and encouraging more retirement plans for workers are among the solutions that Jeb Bush is proposing Tuesday to help stabilize and preserve Social Security and Medicare for seniors. “If we do […]
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