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		<title>How to tell your kids when a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard enough for us adults to have to deal with bad news that affects ourselves or a closed loved one. But it can be even harder on the adults if they have kids they need to inform that mom or dad, or grandma or grandpa or uncle Joey are seriously ill. In this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scratch that itch: Head lice, a common and harmless occurrence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few times each year I will receive phone calls from parents who are in a panic, because they either have a child with head lice or because someone in their child&#8217;s class has head lice. Sometimes I will receive calls asking if they should pull their child out of school, not because their child has head lice, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Most bugs don&#8217;t need drugs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Raffi Sharon]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am borrowing this slogan from an advertising campaign in which we are trying to educate the public that most infections are caused by viruses and not bacteria. The distinction is important, since antibiotics only work against bacterial infections. Most infections however, are caused by bugs known as &#8220;viruses&#8221; and these are the diseases that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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