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More parents ponder cancer gene tests for kids  Women are going for breast cancer gene testing in record numbers, forcing more parents to face a tough question: Should we test the kids?

Kids Yule Love's Sandra Jones Loses Cancer Battle  The Kids Yule Love organization loses a much-loved member of their team. Sandra Jones succumbed to cancer Wednesday. Jones served as Executive Director of the agency for ten years before she stepped down because of her illness.

Alice Birney is site for Healthy Kids Humboldt insurance campaign   Category: Local News Topics: none Healthy Kids Humboldt kicked off its health insurance enrollment campaign at Alice Birney Elementary School this month.

Singh gets a fine-tune in time for Tour Championship  In a commercial Vijay Singh shot this year for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, he is surrounded by children who are battling cancer. In the spot, the kids call Singh the "Big Fijian," not because he's 10-feet tall, and not because he hits the ball a mile. It's because of his big, charitable heart, as one child indicates with a tap on Singh's chest.

Parents debate giving kids cancer gene test  Chicago �� Women are going for breast cancer gene testing in record numbers, forcing more parents to face a tough question: Should we test the kids? About 100,000 tests for breast cancer gene mutations were done last year, double the number in 2005. The trend may grow even more because of widening insurance coverage and a new law banning genetic discrimination. Medical experts advise against such ...

Comfortable clothes for kids with cancer  Anyone who has been to the doctor has donned the drafty and sometimes scratchy hospital gown. For those with long-term illnesses, such as children who have cancer, the garments are an uncomfortable part of treatments that become the new routine.

Kids in Medicaid have more tooth decay: study   An estimated 6.5 million U.S. children cared for through the Medicaid public health insurance program have untreated tooth decay, according to a report released on Wednesday.

In Kansas, medical jobs pay most   Moms and dads, if your kids want to make serious money, keep pressuring them to go to medical school -- and steer them away from food service. Doctors hold the highest-paying jobs in Kansas, according to the state's annual survey of what Kansans make. The list, released Wednesday, puts oral surgeons at the top, with an hourly wage just under $100. Other medical specialties are good, too: The ...

Armstrong's biggest challenge  Lance Armstrong will get his way, eventually. He usually does. As kids, we used to deflate a pal's sense of accomplishment by saying, "It's not like curing cancer."

Boyz to men: The (not so) New - Kids on the Block   It normally starts with a chant, followed by squeals, which quickly build up into a euphoric chorus of screams, claps and occasional foot-stomping. At HMV on London's Oxford Street, hundreds of New Kids on the Block fans are in fine form, even if most of them are in their late twenties and early thirties. One buxom woman, squeezed up against a security barrier, is wearing a white vest ...

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