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Playskool Announces Immediate Voluntary Recall Of Team Talkin’ Tool Bench Toy (Popularity:  )
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Playskool is voluntarily recalling about 255,000 Team Talkin’ Tool Bench toys, age graded 3 years and up, following the deaths of two under-aged children. The Company learned that a 19 month-old and a two year-old, playing with the oversized plastic toy nail suffocated when the nail head became forcefully lodged in their throats.
“We are devastated and heartbroken by the news ...
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What Parents Should Know About Learning Disabilities (Popularity: )
Learning disabilities such as dyslexia affect many children, but many parents often do not understand their causes, recognize the signs, nor know what to do to help their child overcome these challenges.
According to Lance Garrison, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Argosy University/Dallas, a learning disability is a neurological disorder, which is characterized by difficulty with certain skills such as reading, writing, mathematics, and auditory or visual processing. Learning ...
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Kimberly-Clark To Webcast Mark Buthman Presentation And Q&A At Prudential’s "Back-To-School" Conference (Popularity: )
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) will webcast its participation in the 2006 Prudential Equity Group "Back-to-School" Consumer Conference from 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 6. Mark Buthman, Senior Vice President and CFO, will make a presentation about the company’s strategies for growing its global health and hygiene business and will subsequently answer questions from conference attendees. A link to the broadcast and related presentation slides will be ...
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Student Advertising that Meets its Target (Popularity: )
Students aged 18-25 are typically a very fickle group to reach, given their intelligence and the abundance of choices available to them. What if there was a way to not only capture, but captivate this audience? Look no further than Kalendar Productions Inc. Creators of student handbooks for university and college students across Canada. The key to Kalendar Production Inc.’s success is its ability to facilitate student advertising in precisely ...
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Parental cigarette use is ’double whammy’ for children (Popularity: )
A new study exploring smoking, heavy drinking and marijuana use across three generations indicates that the children of a parent who uses any of these substances are more likely to smoke, binge drink or use marijuana in adolescence and adulthood. Drug transmission across generations, the study found, was for a general tendency to use these substances rather than to use any one specifically, with the exception of tobacco. The children ...
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UNICEF and partners begin immunisation campaign for children displaced by the Lebanon conflict (Popularity: )
A campaign to immunise tens of thousands of children displaced by the conflict in Lebanon is underway amid fears that the mass population displacement provoked by the 24-day old crisis could trigger an outbreak of measles, polio or other diseases. The Ministry of Health – supported by UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and a variety of NGO partners – aims to ensure that children living in schools and other public ...
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China Immunises Millions of Children Against Hepatitis B in Historic Collaboration Between Government and GAVI Alliance (Popularity: )
Since 2002, China has immunised 11.1 million children in the country's poorest and most remote western and central provinces against hepatitis B, reducing their risk of developing a deadly and common liver cancer, according to an announcement made today by the Chinese government and the GAVI Alliance.
Following a ceremony in Beijing, held to commend the Chinese for their dramatic progress, GAVI and Chinese health officials told journalists that the ...
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GSA/HUD Break Ground for New Childcare Center (Popularity: )
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) broke ground today for a new childcare center at Robert C. Weaver HUD Headquarters Building at 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. The state-of-the-art center will provide a safe and convenient environment for the children of HUD employees and surrounding federal agencies.
Located under the existing arcade at the SW corner of ...
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Schools Find That Streamlining Communications with Parents Improves Attendance, Safety, and Security (Popularity: )
Cisco Systems® highlighted a new product today that enables schools to communicate important information to parents more quickly and efficiently. A school district in Utah, one in Washington, and another in Illinois are using an advanced automatic communication technology called the SchoolMessenger for Cisco® Unified Communications solution. SchoolMessenger, the leading U.S. parental notification company, has integrated its system with the Cisco telephony solution, which is based on Internet Protocol (IP). ...
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Government Commissioned Report On Abuse Linked To Witchcraft Published Today (Popularity: )
Children and Families Minister Beverley Hughes today announced that action has been stepped up to tackle child abuse linked to ‘possession’ and ‘witchcraft’. A comprehensive cross-agency strategy has already been put in place to speed-up the identification of cases by local agencies and deal with the perpetrators, as well as to help prevent cases happening in the first place. Prevention depends on Local Authorities having strong links with new communities. ...
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