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Baby Tristan returns home from US hospital | HEALTH | NEWS | tvnz. Seven-month old baby Tristan Thornton has been to the other side of the world for a life-saving transplant and now he’s back home. Under the care of world-leading immunologist Dr Louise Markert, Tristan received his transplant at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina last November. The operation involved tiny strips of thymus tissue being injected into Tristan’s thigh in the hope that his body would eventually learn to produce infection-fighting t-cells. read more

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For the third time in as many years, a baby Jesus figurine in a nativity crèche has been stolen from the town Green in Naugatuck. In 2005 and 2006, someone stole the baby Jesus from a crèche owned by the borough in the center of the Green. This year, someone stole a baby Jesus figurine from a nativity scene on the Green in front of St. The church has filed a report with the Naugatuck Police Department, which is also investigating the demolition of a menorah on the Green that is put up by borough officials. Anyone with information about the theft or the demolition of the menorah is asked to call Naugatuck police at (203) 729-5221. read more

Yet there was the working mom on Thursday, burying her boy, Elijah Gasque, in a snow-covered rural cemetery and trying to understand how he wound up with a fractured skull in the care of the 25-year-old sitter, Yalines Torres. Torres told investigators his head smacked a door frame as she ran around with him slung over her shoulder in a sleeping bag. According to a police report, Torres called Adkins-Gasque at her job at a fast-food restaurant that night and told her that Elijah had a seizure and collapsed during a game of ring-around-the-rosy. When officers arrived, Torres made conflicting statements to them about the injury, saying her 2-year-old son struck him in the head with a toy xylophone, and that Elijah may have been hurt when he fell after she twirled him in the air and set him down, the report states. After more questioning, Torres said the child was injured in a game in which she bundled him in a sleeping bag and jogged through her apartment with the bag slung over her shoulder, according to the report. read more

The project, the largest and most comprehensive in the country, is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Duke Endowment and is led by a broad coalition of stakeholders from the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome, University of British Columbia and state and county agencies, service providers and non-profit organizations. Ron Barr, a professor of community child health research and a developmental pediatrician at the University of British Columbia, and Marilyn Barr, founder and executive director of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. In addition, Heidi Hennink-Kaminski and Elizabeth Dougall of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication will work with the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome to develop a statewide media campaign to address social norms about shaking and reinforce program messages through caregivers, family, and friends. The Center for Child and Family Health — a collaborative effort involving Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina Central University and the UNC School of Medicine focused on improving the standards of care for abused and traumatized children — will lead the implementation of the project. Robert Murphy, the center’s executive director and an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke and Margaret Samuels, center deputy director and Period of Purple Crying program manager, lead a statewide leadership team with Runyan that will foster the effort in more than 90 hospitals where children are born, as well as in community settings across the state. read more

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Bucking the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States seems to be experiencing a baby boomlet, reporting the largest number of children born in 45 years. The United States has a higher fertility rate than every country in continental Europe. An examination of global data also shows that the United States has a higher fertility rate than every country in continental Europe, as well as Australia, Canada and Japan. Hispanics as a group have higher fertility rates — about 40 percent higher than the U. To be sure, the fertility rate among Hispanics — 3 children per woman — has been a major contributor. For example, white American women have more children than white European — even though many nations in Europe have more family-friendly government policies on parental leave and child care. read more

The girl’s mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler, 26, both of Spring, are charged with capital murder and evidence tampering in the death. The cremated remains of a toddler who authorities say was beaten to death by her mother and stepfather and dumped in Texas’ Galveston Bay were flown to Ohio to be buried this week. A small casket containing an urn with the ashes of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers arrived at Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport on Monday aboard a corporate jet supplied by an anonymous donor. The girl’s grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, 47, of Mentor, and biological father, Robert Sawyers, 20, of Painesville, had sought to have Riley’s remains flown to Ohio. Riley’s mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler, 26, both of Spring, Texas, are charged with capital murder and evidence tampering. read more

Woodland Park Zoo’s baby gorilla wakes up after surgery Thursday in the arms of senior veterinary technician Harmony Frazier as vet technician Teri Harmann looks on. SEATTLE – Veterinarians and pediatric surgeons combined their efforts to remove a cyst near the spine of a baby gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo, an operation they believe is the first of its kind. The baby, the 12th successful gorilla birth for the zoo and the third offspring of Amanda, 37, and the father, Vip, 28, arrived in October with the cyst at the base of her back, but because of the way gorillas hold their babies it was some time before the deformity was noticed. News | Politics | World News | Business | Sports | Tech/Science | Entertainment | Travel | Health | Blogs Etc. read more

Los Angeles — Even though she’s a good few years away from taking stubby pencil to paper herself, Dave Grohl’s baby daughter Violet gets full credit for influencing her daddy’s writing style. For the Foo Fighters’ founder and frontman, the 2006 birth of his first child added a personal, often confessional tone to his lyrics. Indeed, the Foo Fighters’ current album, “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace,” includes some of Grohl’s most revealing, introspective lyrics such as on “Stranger Things Have Happened,” an intimate look at marriage. Grohl, the Foos’ primary songwriter, wrote the song as a tribute to two trapped miners in Australia who requested Foo Fighters’ music delivered to them on an iPod. But Hawkins admits that he worried whether Norton could bring the right dynamic to the Foos, which also includes guitarist Chris Shiflett and bassist Nate Mendel. Foo Fighters Chris Shiflett (from left) Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel are seen in Los Angeles in 2007. read more

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