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SPOKANE, Wash. — Es la Semana de Concientizacion sobre la Influenza, y un medico destaca la importancia de proteger a los ninos del virus durante esta temporada. La doctora Melissa Quisano es especialista en medicina familiar en Kaiser Permanente en Spokane. Ella senala que la propagacion de la gripe aumenta...
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SPOKANE, Wash. — It is National Influenza Vaccination Week, and one Washington doctor is spotlighting the importance of protecting children from the virus this season. Dr. Melissa Quisano, a family medicine specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Spokane, said the spread of flu goes up in winter as people gather for...
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Steven Kellner es un ex superintendente escolar que ahora trabaja para California Education Partners, una organización sin fines de lucro. Un martes por la tarde en mayo, la maestra de tercer grado Clara Yáñez y la maestra de segundo grado Jackie González se pararon frente a su junta de...
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Steven Kellner is a former school superintendent who now works for California Education Partners, a nonprofit organization. On a Tuesday evening in May, third-grade teacher Clara Yanez and second-grade teacher Jackie Gonzalez stood in front of their board of education and asked them to count little plastic farm animals. While...
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Mary Schuermann Kuhlman Public News Service COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hay un gran esfuerzo esta semana para informar a las familias de Ohio sobre los peligros de un veneno silencioso. Debido a que el plomo es invisible y el daño que causa se retrasa, abordar el envenenamiento por plomo es...
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Mary Schuermann Kuhlman Public News Service COLUMBUS, Ohio — There is a heightened effort this week to inform Ohio families about the dangers of a silent poison. Because lead is invisible and the damage it causes is delayed, addressing lead poisoning is tricky. A recent study found 5% of Ohio kids...
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Los niños siguen llegando. Algunos son llevados de urgencia a la sala de emergencias del Rady Children’s Hospital en San Diego con pensamientos suicidas, otros porque han intentado, una y otra vez, hacerse daño. Al Dr. Ben Maxwell, director interino de psiquiatría infantil de Rady, le preocupa que una...
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The children keep coming. Some are rushed to the emergency room of Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego harboring thoughts of suicide, others because they’ve tried — again and again — to hurt themselves. Dr. Ben Maxwell, Rady’s interim child psychiatry director, worries that a long-brewing crisis is now...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new study argued the current federal limit for exposure to wireless radiation should be hundreds of times lower than it is, for children. Researchers from the Environmental Working Group took methodology developed by the Environmental Protection Agency to assess human health risks from toxic chemicals, and applied...