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There’s never been a better time to have a kid with cancer. Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. What I’m trying to say is that deaths from childhood cancer are declining rapidly. The chances of surviving a number of cancers that strike young children fell 20 percent from 1990 to 2004. The big fall...

A gaggle of German scientists have reported that children with three or more younger siblings face up to four times the risk of developing a brain tumor by age 15 compared to children with no siblings. "The association with number of younger siblings, and not with number of older siblings, suggests that...