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Health & Wellness News tagged with child

8-Year-Old Girl Happy With Chance at Being Normal
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, lymphoblastic leukemia, chemotherapy, Radiation treatment, disease, family, health, healthcare, surgery, infection, eye, cancer of blood-forming tissues, bone marrow )

Kelli
- 12 days ago - azcentral.com
Amber was not yet 2 when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She was 5 when the disease came back. Amber underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Her immune system was knocked out, and her bone marrow had to be replaced.
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10-Year-Old Girl With Fused Legs Dies
Health & Wellness  (tags: Mermaid Syndrome, child, death, rare )

Lone
- 27 days ago - news-leader.com
Portland, Maine -- Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome," and gained a wide following on the Internet and national television, has died. She was 10.
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Boy, 9, Returns to School as a Girl
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, sex change operation, school )

Sophie
- 62 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The unidentified Year Five child left school as a boy and returned the next day as a girl, in female uniform with a ponytail tied in pink ribbon. The case comes after reports a 12-year-old boy had started secondary school as a girl.
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Woman Donates Part of Liver to Co-Worker's Daughter
Health & Wellness  (tags: woman, donates, liver, child, co worker, Good News )

Lone
- 81 days ago - suntimes.com
When Catherine Ortiz learned that her co-worker's 11-month-old daughter needed a liver transplant, it didn't take long to decide she wanted to be the donor.
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One Girl's Music, Another's Plight Touch Web Users YouTube Video Spotlights Cancer Battle
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, child, girl, heart breaking )

Lone
- 90 days ago - washingtonpost.com
They are together at a computer screen one morning in a sunlit kitchen in Ashburn, two girls closely watching the YouTube video that joins them.
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Top 50 Autism Support and Research Blogs
Health & Wellness  (tags: Autism, Medical, Child, Family, Health )

Sophie
- 95 days ago - nursepractitionerschools.org
One in 150 newly birthed children is diagnosed with autism according to the Autism Society of America. Here are 50 blogs to keep you abreast of new autism treatments and news as well as support for families, friends and individuals dealing with autism.
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Draper Mother Working to Raise Money to Save Daughter's Life
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, risks, money, treatment, Brain Tumor, health )

Lone
- 105 days ago - ksl.com
DRAPER -- Maryn Cella is 3 years old, her favorite color is hot pink and she wants to be a princess. She sounds like any other little girl, until you hear what's growing in her head.
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British Girl's Heart Heals Itself After Revolutionary Transplant
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, heart transplant recipient, revolutionary, medical miracle, Cancer Treatment, drugs risk )

Rosemary
- 129 days ago - health.lifestyle.yahoo.ca
LONDON - British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart. After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, ... CONTINUED ...
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Mother, Son Missing in Forced Chemotherapy Case - Minnesota, USA
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, minnesota, cancer, child, Hodgkin's lymphoma, court, treatment, alternative, chemotherapy, radiation )

Chrissy
- 183 days ago - edition.cnn.com
A Minnesota judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for the mother of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old boy who is refusing treatment for his cancer, after neither she nor the boy showed up for a court appearance. "It is imperative that Daniel receive the
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Sign Petition: For Mother's Day, Get Critical Aid to New Mothers Worldwide
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, mothers, day, children, pregnancy, disease, death, mortality, newborns, poor, poverty, prevention, child, aid, risks, health, safety, treatment, medicine, protection, women, society, culture )

Tom
- 196 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Target: U.S. House of Representatives. Around the world, more than 25,000 children under the age of 5 die every day from preventable and treatable diseases, and about 536,000 women die from pregnancy and birth-related causes. That's simply unacceptable.
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PLEASE..A MUST READ:.."To Live and Die in Wales, Alaska "
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, arts, child, children, culture, death, education, environment, ethics, family, freedoms, health, humans, interesting, media, news, Body-Mind-Spirit, death, disease, environment, ethics, family, health, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, ri )

Wolfweeps
- 208 days ago - alaskadispatch.com
For years Mike Weyapuk sat on his bunk, cradling his sunburst Gibson guitar. He stared out at the frozen Bering Strait and dreamed of the day he would leave his village to start a metal band. He thought about moving to Seattle or Chicago, but nowhere too
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First US Count Finds 1 in 200 Kids Are Vegetarian
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, child, vegetarian, kids, school, culture, interesting, family, ethics, society, research, treatment, study, food, family, disease, healthcare, prevention, humans )

Kim
- 311 days ago - google.com
All the time, my friends try to get me to eat meat and tell me how good it tastes and how much bigger I would be," said Silverman, who is 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds. "But for me, there's no real temptation."
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Miracle Children Survive Against the Odds
Health & Wellness  (tags: Science, Health, Miracle, child, Odds )

Jollygirl
- 327 days ago - edition.cnn.com
A baby who never uttered a word touched the hearts of nearly a million people. Kendra and Maliyah Herrin were born sharing a large intestine, bladder, liver and single kidney.
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Bah, Humbug! Tips To Manage Your Holiday Stress
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, business, home, shopping, interesting, goodnews, family, women, americans, ethics, child, medicine, research, prevention, protection, treatment, study, healthcare, health, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, humans, disease )

Kim
- 349 days ago - wcbstv.com
The stress of finances, the stress of family, the stress of jobs," says Dr. Robin Kerner of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. The American Psychiatric Association reported the economy was a significant cause of
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Tot Survives Key Fall Horror - Missouri/USA
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, injury, brain, missouri, usa, survival )

Chrissy
- 360 days ago - thesun.co.uk
THIS youngster has been hailed a miracle after surviving being stabbed through the eye - with a car key. Nicholas Holderman, one, was heard crying by his shocked father Chris after a fall at home. Mr Holderman rushed to the tot's aid only to find .....
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