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Michelle Healy

Few kids meeting TV-time standards

Only 27 percent of kids ages 12 to15 meet the recommended limit of two hours or less of TV plus computer use daily, new government statistics show. And 7 percent of kids this age ...

There is a downside for kids eating fortified cereal

Their excessive consumption of nutrients could be dangerous

Depression a risk for young, first-time dads

Difficulty transitioning to parenthood among several known factors

No sugar for a year: Could you do it?

After the tears, family discovers it can live (mostly) without

Centenarians are feeling younger than ever

Age truly is just a number, according a survey of centenarians and baby boomers, both of whom say they feel younger than their actual ages. Centenarians, on average, say they feel...

Your kids drink more caffeine

But the good news: They drink less soda

Study: 1 child per hour seriously injured by guns

Almost one child or teen an hour is injured by a firearm seriously enough to require hospitalization, a new analysis finds. Six percent of the 7,391 hospitalizations analyzed in 2009 resulte...

Is it a cold or the flu? How to tell

Catching a cold – or even worse, the flu – is common this time of the year when close contact with others, busy schedules and stress make us even more susceptible to the many respiratory vir...

Adult prescription growth endangers kids

More than 70,000 poisoned annually