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Girls who begin their period earlier are more likely to be depressed teens: study

The younger a girl is when she begins her monthly period, the more likely she is to struggle with depression later in her teen years, according to a study. British scientists studied a group of girls ages 10, 13 and 14 years old and examined the relationship between the early onset of menstruation …

Autism and vaccine link discredited; what parents should know now about vaccinating kids

It's safe for kids to get their shots. That's the take-away message from medical experts in the wake of a British Medical Journal article about a discredited study linking vaccines and autism. The study author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, hid the fact that some of the children he wrote about in h…