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The measly measles: what you need to know

How to keep your family from catching this highly contagious illness

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The straight dose: what to remember when your child gets a new prescription

Most kids, at one time or another in their childhood or adolescence, will need to take prescription medication to help treat symptoms of a condition or illness. As a parent, you’re the one who has to make sure that—as the old song goes—“the medicine goes down.”
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The very real risks of avoiding vaccinations

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To pierce or not to pierce… that is the question?

Being well informed is the best policy

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True or false: A bone marrow donor must be a family member of the person who needs the transplant.

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True or False: Babies can easily handle more than one vaccine at a time

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True or false? Kidney failure is curable.

False. Kidney disease takes many different forms and may lead to kidney failure. Although there are ways to treat people with kidney failure—namely dialysis or kidney transplant—these treatments are not actual cures for kidney disease.
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True or False? Not all tumors are cancerous.

True. Confusion can arise because the words “tumor” and “cancer” are often regarded as the same thing. A tumor is not necessarily cancer, however.
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Understanding acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Leukemia is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in children and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL as it’s commonly called, is the most common type of leukemia. ALL is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, and it affects the body's white blood cells (WBCs). Normally, these cells help fight infection and protect the body against disease. But in leukemia, these cells turn cancerous and multiply when they shouldn't, resulting in too many abnormal WBCs. 

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Understanding bone marrow transplants

Bone marrow is a blood-like substance found inside our bones. It’s important because of its role in making all kinds of blood cells: red blood cells that carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight infections and platelets that help blood clot.

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