Chinese boy has eyes gouged out in attack, thought to be by organ traffickers
ABC – A six-year-old boy in China has reportedly had his eyes gouged out, blinding him for life, in a gruesome attack that may have been carried out by a ruthless organ trafficker. Local media reports...
View ArticleWorld-wide detox: Japan to run Internet ‘fasting’ camps for addicted teens
RT – Over half a million middle- and high-school students in Japan are feared to be strongly addicted to the Internet, prompting authorities to try a revolutionary solution to help teens who cannot...
View ArticleTanzania’s child gold miners risking injury and abuse to support families
Guardian – Thousands of children, some as young as eight, work in licensed and unlicensed small-scale gold mines in Tanzania, despite strong laws prohibiting child labour in mining, according to a...
View ArticleEntertainer Rolf Harris charged with 13 child sex offences
Reuters – Australian entertainer Rolf Harris was charged with 13 child sex offences on Thursday as part of an investigation by British police into child abuse that has led to the arrest of more than a...
View ArticleFlorida researchers exhume graves at reform school known for abuse
Guardian – University of South Florida researchers began work to exhume dozens of graves on Saturday at a former Panhandle reform school, in the hope of identifying the boys buried there and learning...
View ArticleEcuador: Rape Survivors Denied Safe and Legal Abortion
HRW – Ecuador’s restrictive abortion laws put the health and even the lives of rape victims in danger, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In late August 2013 the National Assembly is...
View ArticleNigeria’s child brides: ‘I thought being in labour would never end’
Guardian – Ibrahim Kanuma winces as he recalls the moment a 63-year-old man asked him for his teenage daughter’s hand in marriage. The proposal was not unusual in north-western Nigeria’s remote,...
View ArticleResearchers discover a potential cause of autism
MedicalXpress – Problems with a key group of enzymes called topoisomerases can have profound effects on the genetic machinery behind brain development and potentially lead to autism spectrum disorder...
View ArticleDown syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection
ABC – US researchers have found a way to reverse Down syndrome in newborn lab mice by injecting an experimental compound that causes the brain to grow normally. The study, published in the Science...
View ArticlePope pulls ambassador to Dominican Republic amid abuse allegations
CNN – Prosecutors began a criminal investigation Wednesday into the Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, a day after a local church representative said the pope had recalled the envoy...
View ArticleUsing harsh verbal discipline with teens found to be harmful
PhysOrg – Many American parents yell or shout at their teenagers. A new longitudinal study has found that using such harsh verbal discipline in early adolescence can be harmful to teens later. Instead...
View ArticleGerman police remove children from Christian sect after alleged abuse
DW – German police have raided a Christian sect, removing 40 children. Authorities have said the “Twelve Tribes” group is accused of beating and abusing the children, German media reported. More than...
View ArticleAustralia: New bill ‘could threaten women’s reproductive freedom’
SBS- Women’s rights groups are warning that a New South Wales bill to recognise crimes against unborn children could threaten women’s reproductive freedom. The bill, which is likely to debated in the...
View ArticleU.S. teen use of e-cigarettes doubled, CDC reports
Reuters – Twice as many U.S. middle and high school students used electronic cigarettes, which mimic traditional cigarettes and deliver nicotine as a vapor, in 2012 than a year earlier, and these teens...
View ArticleU.S. teenage birth rate at new low, government report shows
Reuters – The rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States is at a historic low, and has dropped by more than half in the last two decades, declining across nearly all racial and ethnic groups,...
View ArticleUSA: Adopted Teens Face High Suicide Risk
Medpage Today – Teens who were adopted in early childhood had approximately four times the risk for attempted suicide in late adolescence compared with offspring living with their biological parents,...
View ArticleStudy links testicle size to how men raise children
ABC – A United States study measuring fathering habits and testicle size suggests that bigger may not be better when it comes to the day-to-day raising of small children. The research involved 70...
View ArticleYemeni child bride, eight, dies of internal injuries on first night of forced...
Daily Mail – An eight-year-old child bride has died in Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed. The...
View ArticlePeru: illegal gold mining causing mercury poisoning in natives: Study
The Hindu – Indigenous children in Peru’s southeastern Amazon, an area where tens of thousands of illegal gold miners operate, have unsafe mercury concentrations over three times the level of their...
View ArticleVitamin D Cuts Kids’ Recurrent Ear Infection
MedPage Today – Children with low levels of vitamin D and recurrent ear infections had a reduced risk for acute otitis media with vitamin D supplementation, researchers reported here. Read article
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