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The Chernobyl disaster began on April 26, 1986--and continues even now, given its profound effect on the region. With the debate over alternative energy sources as contentious as ever, this Academy Award-winning program offers a wealth of issues to consider; its reexamination of what happened at the Ukranian reactor and its investigation into the dark side of nuclear power parallel the questions many Americans have regarding the storage of radioactive...
3) The thriving child: parenting successfully through allergies, asthma, and other common challenges
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A prescriptive guidebook for parents describes the author's struggles to diagnose and protect her allergy-sufferer daughter, recounting how she detoxified her home, changed the family's diet, and learned whole-child disciplinary strategies.
9) Exercise
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Weight lifting, sprinting, and doing pushups are anaerobic exercises, which require a lot of energy, depleting the body's oxygen reserves. The oxygen debt requires rapid deep breathing to restore a proper oxygen level to muscle cells. Repeated exercise causes related muscle fibers to enlarge. If more oxygen is required than is available during your workout, your muscles obtain energy using a rapid, inefficient process called anaerobic metabolism....
11) Outpatient prescription opioid use in pediatric medicaid enrollees with special health care needs
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This study highlights ambulatory opioid exposures (OE) in children and youth with special healthcare needs, by prevalence and type of OE, diagnoses, and healthcare encounters.
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According to the United Nations, the United States spends more per capita on health care than any other nation in the world, yet ranks 42nd in life expectancy. Obesity contributes to this unfortunate situation. Experts agree that if the current obesity trends are not overturned, today's children will be the first to have a life expectancy shorter than their parents. In their introduction, editors Rafael Perez-Escamilla and Hugo Melgar-Quinonez note...
15) Vaccines
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An active vaccination is an injection of an antigen (a weakened disease-causing substance) to trigger the body's long-term defense mechanism against the disease without developing it. B cells form antibodies against a specific disease to fight the disease when it enters the body.
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This film shows students what life is like for children around the world. Follow 8to 12year-olds on their journeys to school. Sanjana lives in a neighborhood that is dangerous for women and girls, and is afraid of the people she encounters on her walk to school. Yambuki makes her way through the busy streets of Tokyo with her best friend on their way to brass practice. Zacheo lives on a wildlife sanctuary and has breakfast with a skunk and baby monkey...
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This film shows students what life is like for children around the world. Follow 8to 12year-olds on their journeys to school. Luniko is HIV positive like many of the children in his town, and he wishes his family could afford for him to take a bus to school. Jafer lives in Iraq, and someday wants to be a police officer so that he can help fight terrorism in his country. Rebekka is partially blind and has just recently started walking into town and...
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"An accessible, authoritative guide to understanding the "silent spring" of threats in our collective backyard. More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket -- autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and even birth...
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Common Childhood Injuries is an excellent program that teaches how to care for minor emergencies and how to prevent serious ones from getting worse before medical help arrives. Part one covers coping with emergencies; allergic reactions; bites and stings; bone, joint, and muscle injuries; and burns. Part two covers cardiopulmonary arrest; choking; cuts; scrapes; abrasions; drowning; electrical injury; eye injury; head injury; and poisoning. Also provided...
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