Illness Takes Toll on Boy And Parents
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By the time her son was 4 months old, Lynn Richards was certain something was wrong. Baby Oliver couldn't lift his head, which was unusually large, and he was as floppy as a rag doll.
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When Krystina Brugh fell ill in January, her parents thought it was the stomach flu. They fed her crackers and her favorite sandwich, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, to give her strength. She didn't get better. Soon, the 11-year-old couldn't even keep down water, and her kidneys started to fail.
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Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Many desperate parents dealing with depressed or out-of-control kids have found that medication has helped bring some normalcy to family life.
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Our position is: State must find a way to provide better support for families of the mentally ill. Pamela Wohlhieter says being the mother of a son with paranoid schizophrenia often feels like crawling out of a &quot;bottomless pit.
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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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A family of four boys with a life-threatening illness wait to hear if a transplant has been successful for a second son.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A teenager from  the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been  hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia's health minister  said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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My children are great kids. They inspire me every day. Scott, 24, and his sister, Joy, 22, have cystic fibrosis. Thanks to the medicines available when they were young and new medicines available
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With the weather getting colder and more students staying inside in close quarters, the increase of sickness is becoming a more serious threat.
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Brothers and sisters of autistic kids are in need of attention too. Here's how a mother copes  -  and what experts say
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KOTA BARU: A 10-year-old boy from Kampung Belian, who has been in quarantine at the hospital here since Monday, is the only one in his family with bird flu-like symptoms.
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause
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Parents of children with asthma are failing to clear their homes of substances that can cause an attack.
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A 5-year-old San Diego County child infected with the West Nile virus has developed the life-threatening complications typical of severe cases, but health officials aren&#39;t certain if
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A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters' weight.
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A 10-month-old boy has become the seventh person hospitalized with bird flu symptoms in Thailand since a teenager died of the disease last week, officials said Tuesday.