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Doctors to be on guard for meningitis in kids (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. health officials asked doctors on Thursday to be alert for possible cases of meningitis and other illnesses in children caused by Hib bacteria amid an ongoing vaccine shortage.

Unintended pregnancy raises risk of future ones (Reuters)

Reuters - Women and girls who've had an unplanned pregnancy in the past are at risk of future unplanned pregnancies, regardless of other risk factors like age and education, a new study shows.

Texting Food Diaries Helps Kids Stick With Diets (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Experts hope that letting kids have their fingers do the texting will increase compliance with the food diaries that are such a critical part of successful dieting.

Parent Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Kids' Heart Risks (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Damage to the arteries of children of smokers can be detected in the early decades of their lives, a new Dutch study finds.

Drug combo may help curb bedwetting (Reuters)

Reuters - In children who continue to wet the bed despite standard treatment with desmopressin, adding the bladder-control drug tolterodine (Detrol) to therapy leads to a significant decrease in the risk of bedwetting, Missouri-based researchers have found.

Health Tip: Is Your Child More Prone to Ear Infections? (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Ear infections are common in children, and may occur for a variety of reasons.

Child-Care Relationships Tied to Kids' Stress Levels (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Bickering parents and poor caregiver relationships each increase levels of the stress hormone cortisol in children, new studies say.

Fast-food ad ban could cut child obesity: U.S. study (Reuters)

Reuters - Banning fast-food advertising on television in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, researchers said on Wednesday.

Smoking while pregnant harms baby's blood vessels (Reuters)

Reuters - Women who smoke during pregnancy may cause permanent blood vessel damage in their children that may become evident as early as young adulthood and raise the risk for heart attack and stroke, Dutch investigators reported today.

EU school children to get free fruit (AFP)

AFP - School pupils throughout Europe will soon be offered free fruit every week under an EU initiative agreed Wednesday to improve children's health and tackle obesity.

Canola Oil Consumed During Pregnancy Lowers Breast Cancer Risk for Offspring (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women whose mothers consumed canola oil during pregnancy and breast-feeding may be less likely to develop breast cancer than those whose mothers consumed corn oil, a new study suggests.

Bariatric Surgery Before Pregnancy Benefits Moms, Babies (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women who get pregnant after having weight-loss surgery have a lower risk of maternal and newborn complications than pregnant women who are obese, according to U.S. researchers who analyzed 75 studies.

Weight-loss surgery helps with pregnancy: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday.

UNICEF warns of growing cholera risk in DR Congo (AFP)

AFP - Cholera is spreading quickly in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where rebels are fighting government troops, the UN Children's Fund warned Tuesday.

Scientists find prehistoric "nuclear family" (Reuters)

Reuters - A 4,600-year-old grave in Germany containing the remains of two adults and their children provides the earliest evidence that even prehistoric tribes attached importance to the family unit, researchers said on Monday.

Obese kids have prematurely aged neck arteries (Reuters)

Reuters - The neck arteries of obese children and teens look more like those of 45-year-olds, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's annual meeting.

Ancient graves yield clues to family relationships (AP)

AP - A stone-age burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family. The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children.