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Tens of thousands of children may face a lifetime of health problems due to living in FEMA trailers in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Formaldehyde, a cancer-causing substance, has been found in FEMA trailers at levels five times what is considered safe. Months after Katrina I remember commentators...

Time to rethink that trip to Tuscany : a German study of close to 2200 kids found that the more often a child's family vacationed in sunny, southern climes, the more likely the child was to have multiple melanocytic nevi, moles that are a precursor to melanoma. Yikes. Trips to northern destinations did...

Yep, there's nothing that shows support for a cause like whipping a razor over your head, and nine friends and family members of 7-year-old Zach Nawas have the shorn locks to prove it. Zach, a Louisiana second-grader, is losing his hair in treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma , a form of cancer of the lymphatic...