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Fathering Autism

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:00

In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube's ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister.

She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no friends outside her family. Rachel does not understand why other ...


 

9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 05/15/2008 - 06:58

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday....


 

Parents Speak Out on Vaccine Settlement

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 03/06/2008 - 15:46

ATLANTA (AP) -- The parents of the 9-year-old girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their bright, red-haired daughter deteriorate into an irritable, odd-behaving toddler after she got several childhood shots....


 

Youngest patient worldwide to have auditory implant in the brain...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 02/25/2008 - 23:00

A team at the University Hospital of Navarra have successfully operated on a 13 month-old girl from Murcia, who had been born deaf due to the lack of auditory nerves.

She is the youngest patient in the world who has received an auditory implant in the brain stem.