When Hospitals Kept Children From Parents
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From the 1960s onward, advances in hospital architecture have radically changed accommodations for family members.
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St. Mary's County was once a place where no doctor wanted to settle. In the 1970s, the county hospital used decades-old equipment, struggled to make payroll and had no full-time specialists -- not even an obstetrician, although more than 600 babies were born there each year.
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The government waters down plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients.
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A judge rules that doctors caring for a terminally-ill baby can withhold treatment if his condition worsens.
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Parents are urged to take better control after children as young as four are caught house-breaking.
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Kids who need their tonsils removed can be in and out of the hospital on the same day, in many cases, Spanish doctors report.
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Mothers cradle children in their arms. Fathers smile softly at the helpless bodies they hold. Other parents are bent over from the weight of their teenage kids whose legs fall limp, almost touching the ground. In the absence of basic medical equipment, these parents do this every day.
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Moves to protect children from unscrupulous dealers in adoption.
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Surgery for children with genital abnormalities was once automatic. Now parents are involved, and the choices are complex.
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Children whose mothers  experience severe abuse at the hands of an intimate partner are  more likely to wind up in hospital emergency departments, and  their increased risk may persist for up to three years after  the abuse has ended, new research shows.
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Picture a parent anxiously checking a sick child's thermometer or hauling the kids to the doctor's office and the image that usually comes to mind is of mom. But with rising numbers of stay-at-home dads, father-only households, shared-custody arrangements and other cultural changes, men are increasingly getting involved in their children's health care.
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka -- A judge's ruling yesterday that a couple must undergo a DNA test to prove they are the parents of the tsunami survivor known as "Baby 81" sparked chaos in a hospital pediatric ward after a surging crowd and the would-be parents burst in and pleaded with doctors to release the infant.
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When I was a kid, my parents had trouble getting me to come inside and sit down. Today, to hear health experts tell it, parents have trouble getting kids to move.
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This was the scene recently at a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala, before police removed 46 babies, suspecting they had been kidnapped or coerced from their parents to be put up for foreign adoption.
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Â· Mother's move prompted by girl's fertility disorderÂ· Ethics committee approved procedure
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It may be an obvious fact that hot things in the kitchen and children do not mix. But emergency room workers find that some parents still do not understand the problem.
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In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows.