Jul
29
2014

Imagine you're a married 44-year-old man. You live in China. You've been experiencing some abdominal pain, and you've had blood in your urine. So you decide to check it out at the hospital, where they tell you are menstruating

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Jul
29
2014

Woman Seen Plucking Bird On Subway Defends Actions

I will always be an Inuk, no matter where I am

People have been in a flap over the whole bird plucking and eating incident on the Montreal Metro. Or at least that's what it looked like a young woman was doing in a video taken earlier this month that has since gone viral.

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Health Canada has recalled the following models of Tommee Tippee Monitor with Movement Sensor Pads: 1082S and 1094S.

If pulled into a crib, the sensor pad cord may become wrapped around an infant's neck, posing a strangulation risk.

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Jul
24
2014

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recalled the above cribs in birch, grey, walnut, and white with the following model numbers (found on the warning label):

  • 1SPCR
  • 2SPCR
  • 4SPCR
  • 5SPCR

The top rail, as well as slats and spindles, may detach, posing a potential entrapment hazard to an infant. While four incidents were reported involving detached rail/spindles, no injuries were sustained.

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Jul
23
2014

British Café Courts Breastfeeding Moms

What the world needs now . . .

. . . is more businesses like this one. Spotted in a café in southern England, this blackboard urges moms to take a seat, have a cuppa, and relax and nurse without fear of judgment.

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Jul
23
2014

Study: Autism Caused By Common Gene Variants

One step closer to understanding

The question of what causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one that has boggled the medical community for some time now. But researchers may have made a breakthrough discovery in a recent, "unprecedentedly large" study.

According to an article in the CBC, American and Swedish researchers claim that autism isn't caused by environmental factors or mutations in DNA, but "common variants" that exist in everyone.  

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Jul
22
2014

Prince George Turns One Amidst Media Maelstrom

World Goes Gaga over Most Eligible Toddler

The world's most famous baby is one year old today. Bless him, so far little Prince George is blissfully unaware of the public's adulation—which is probably just as well.

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Jul
18
2014

Mom-Made Rainbow Loom Dress Sells For More Than $200,000

Wondering what to do with all that Rainbow Loom once your daughter's obsession wanes?

Wondering what to do with all that Rainbow Loom once your daughter's obsession wanes? A Welsh mom turned a hobby into cold hard profit, having created a dress out of loom and nothing but loom. Subject to a bidding craze on eBay, the dress eventually sold for more than $200,000.

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Jul
18
2014

Mom Arrested For Leaving 9-Year-Old At Park

Child neglect or helicopter parenting gone nuts?

A mom whose 9-year-old daughter was playing in the park alone was arrested. Now before you get your free-range knickers in a knot, consider that it was the third consecutive day that the girl was left outside while Debra Harrell went to work a shift at McDonald's. 

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