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Kids With Cancer Deliver Lip-Synced Rendition of Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger"

By UCN on May 10, 2012 8:42 AM

Singer Kelly Clarkson performs onstage at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images North America)

A young guy with leukemia stopped by the hospital where he's being treated to make a video with the kids on the cancer floor Saturday. By this morning, Chris Rumble, 22, and his fellow patients at Seattle Children's Hospital were YouTube stars with more than 252,000 views -- thanks to their lip-synced rendition of the Kelly Clarkson hit "Stronger."

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More U. S. Teen Girls Choose to Abstain from Sex, Remain Virgins

By UCN on May 5, 2012 5:44 PM

Use of Highly Effective Birth Control Also Increasing

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Study Ties Birth Defects to Fertility Treatments

By UCN on May 5, 2012 3:34 PM

Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role.

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1 In 10 Babies Born Premature Every Year

By UCN on May 2, 2012 3:48 PM

Fifteen million babies, or one in 10 around the world are born premature every year, and 1.1 million of those infants die, according to a UN-sponsored report released Wednesday.

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Overweight Teens Have Tough Time Handling Diabetes

By UCN on April 30, 2012 1:36 PM

Judith Garcia, 19, fills a syringe as she prepares to give herself an injection of insulin at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce, Calif., Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

New research sends a stark warning to overweight teens: If you develop diabetes, you'll have a very tough time keeping it under control.

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Beauty Queen Shaves Head for Children Affected by Cancer Treatment

By UCN on March 16, 2012 3:45 PM

Miss Chugiak-Eagle River Debbe Ebben poses for a photo on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in Town Square Park in Anchorage, Alaska, as a moose lies near a tree in the background. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

The Miss Alaska pageant requires contestants to perform a public service project. Under Debbe Ebben's silver tiara is evidence of hers.

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Boozing In Movies Linked to Increase In Teen Alcohol Drinking

By UCN on March 5, 2012 9:08 AM

How much drinking kids and teens had seen in recent movies was linked to the chances they overdid it on alcohol themselves in a new study from six European countries.

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Beyonce Praised for Breastfeeding in Public

By UCN on March 4, 2012 3:32 PM

Beyonce with daughter Blue Ivy. Reports say the pop star is nursing in public. (Ed Burke, AP)

Pop star Beyonce isn't just breastfeeding -- she's breastfeeding in public, if a report in US Weekly, quoting at least one eye-witness, is correct.

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New Reports Say More Kids Undergoing Treatment to Change Their Sex

By UCN on February 20, 2012 9:13 AM

A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.

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15 Minute Old Newborn Receives Pacemaker

By UCN on February 16, 2012 6:18 AM

In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 photo provided by the Stanford School of Medicine, Kamneel Maharaj watches as his wife Leanne Maharaj holds their daughter Jaya at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Stanford School of Medicine, Norbert von der Groeben)

The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old.

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