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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's use of DNA testing to match migrant children separated from their parents is justifiable as a last resort, medical experts say, but raises a host of ethical problems ... She recalled a married couple from an African country, whom she'd represented years ago. They took in and raised an infant, but when they became refugees they could not prove legal parentage, so the family was separated ... ——— ... ....

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Test DNA of migrant kids only as last resort, ethicists...

This is Money 11 Jul 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration's use of DNA testing to match migrant children separated from their parents is justifiable as a last resort, medical experts say, but raises a host of ethical problems ... She recalled a married couple from an African country, whom she'd represented years ago. They took in and raised an infant, but when they became refugees they could not prove legal parentage, so the family was separated ... ___ ... ....

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Global Pediatric Drugs and Vaccines Industry

Market Watch 11 Jul 2018

Percentage of Live Births/New Borns/Infants/ Children Vaccinated by Select Region ... Hypothyroidism in Infants and Children ... Pfizers Prevenar 13® Receives Approval for Use in Infants and Children in China ... Sanofi Pasteur Announces Availability of First Doses of Injectable Polio Vaccine ShanIPV(TM) in Near Future for Indian Infants ... Percentage of Live Births/New Borns/Infants/Children Vaccinated (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)....

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The Epic Battle Between Breast Milk and Infant-Formula Companies

The Atlantic 10 Jul 2018

delegation’s actions, it seemed like an example of the Trump administration bowing to the food industry and infant-formula manufacturers ... government that is strongly aligned with the interests of the infant-formula industry and dairy industry, and are willing to play hardball,” said Lucy Sullivan, the director of 1,000 Days, an advocacy group that works on nutrition for mothers and children....

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Low pay for child care workers puts more than half at poverty level, study finds

The Mercury News 09 Jul 2018

Child care workers in the report include adults who work with infants and toddlers in child care centers and some home-based settings ... Nationwide, this pay difference disproportionately affects African-Americans, 52 percent of whom work with infants and toddlers compared to 43 percent of all child care workers in child care centers....

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Man fired after video of racist pool incident goes viral

Yahoo Daily News 07 Jul 2018

A Fourth of July video captured a white man who called the police because he refused to believe that an African-American woman and her infant were ......

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Child under-nutrition costs Mali over 450 mln USD: AU

Xinhua 04 Jul 2018

ADDIS ABABA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The African Union ... The study further unveiled that 47 percent of the adult population in Mali were affected by stunting as children, while 34 percent of infant mortality cases in the West African country are associated with under-nutrition....

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Why are so many of San Francisco's black mothers and babies dying?

The Guardian 26 Jun 2018

Among the city’s African American residents, already grappling with a declining population, high unemployment and housing costs, there is another unrelenting crisis ... Nationally, African American babies are more than twice as likely to die as whites ... Although blacks make up only 5% of all births in the city, 23% of all infant deaths were African American infants, according to ....

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Why Washington is one of worst places to be black, pregnant

Federal News Radio 24 Jun 2018

In a nation that fails women and children more than any other wealthy country, as measured by maternal and infant mortality rates, black women and children carry a significantly bigger burden of that loss ... The District’s maternal mortality rate is more than double the nation’s, and among the maternal deaths recorded between 2014 and 2016 in Washington, 75 percent were of African American women....

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Gov’t urged in invest in sickle cell screening of newborns to tackle disease

Joy Online 21 Jun 2018

Alexis Thompson, said the disease remains a major killer of infants and children in the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa ... Also, in Ghana and other sub-Saharan African countries, an estimated 50 to 90 per cent of infants born with the disease will die before their fifth birthday ... Speaking at the webinar on Ghana’s progress with infant screening for the disease, Dr Ohene-Frempong said....

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Cute alert: Another set of twin lemurs born at the Duke Lemur Center

The Herald-Sun 21 Jun 2018

The infants are named for Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut, and Judith Resnick, who was a mission specialist on the ill-fated Challenger space shuttle that exploded in 1986 ... They are named Harriot and Helene ... SHARE ... ....

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Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers

Journal Review 19 Jun 2018

Already higher than the nation's rate, infant mortality has actually increased in Indiana during recent years. Some of the highest rates in the state for African-American infant deaths are in two Allen County ZIP codes ... And the downstream effects from that will be seen immediately" on such problems as infant mortality, he said....

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Counterpoint: Tearing apart families is inhumane

News & Record 15 Jun 2018

The United States has a shameful history of separating marginalized infants and children from their parents. For hundreds of years, slave traders broke apart African and African-American families ... Departments of Justice and Homeland Security recently revised a policy and are now separating migrant infants and children from their families....

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