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Doctors Say Teens Should Be Banned From Tanning Salons

Teenagers should be barred from tanning salons to help prevent them from getting skin cancer, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. The country's largest group of pediatric doctors warned today that spending time in the tanning salon greatly increases the chances of getting melanoma, the most aggressive and deadly type...

'Baby Yoga': How Young Is Too Young? [VIDEOS]

Would you swing a baby around by its limbs? Russian yoga instructor Lena Fokina would, and a video of her "baby yoga" routine has gone viral -- making many American parents cringe in horror. In the clip, Fokina takes a 2-week-old infant through exercises she calls "dynamic gymnastics." Watch: Parenting blog DadWagon...

Study: Spacing Babies Close May Raise Autism Risk

CHICAGO -- Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. Children born less than two years after their siblings were considerably more likely to have an autism diagnosis compared to those born after at least...

Kid Chokings Still 'Extremely Serious' Problem

(April 19) -- Millions of young children continue to be injured from choking-related accidents, and death rates are "surprisingly high," according to a new report. "The aspiration and ingestion of foreign bodies presents a potential lethal threat to infants and children," states the report, published this week in the...

Opinion: Pediatricians Need to Get With the Breastfeeding Program

(April 6) -- When my first daughter was born, I was a little taken aback when our very old-school pediatrician demanded to know whether I would breast- or bottle-feed her. This seemed like an intrusive question from a doctor who made it abundantly clear that I should be breastfeeding. And yet, as my newborn and I struggled...

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10/12/11 Slide show: Common baby rashes Source: MayoClinic.com Connelly EA, et al. Seborrheic dermatitis.
07/09/11 Slide show: What a newborn really looks like Source: MayoClinic.com Harpreet K, et al. Physical examination of the newborn.