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One of the main types of infant sleep positioners are flat mats with side bolsters. Tweet 0 Comments

WASHINGTON  — Those soft fabric sleep positioners that parents put in the crib to keep babies safely sleeping on their backs could be dangerous, even deadly, for little ones, the federal government warned Wednesday.

Citing 12 deaths, the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission said the positioners are not safe and that parents, caregivers and others should not use them at all because of a suffocation risk.

The babies, ranging in age from one to four months, died when they suffocated in the positioner or became trapped between the positioner and the side of a crib and then suffocated.

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A 3-year-old girl born with a rare condition that often doesn’t allow the skull and brain to grow and develop normally was saved by a novel operation in which surgeons took apart her skull and put it back together like a jigsaw puzzle, the Daily Mail reports.

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Phoebe Grimes, of Kilburn in Derbyshire, England, was born with a condition called craniosynostosis, meaning her skull fused in the womb and she was born without the “soft spot” that allows baby’s brain to grow and develop during the first several months of life. Read full post…

If Congress wants to put healthier food into school lunches, it may have to go with the bill the Senate passed last month, or risk rehashing the whole thing later and getting nothing.

That’s become the political reality. Even Ag Chief Tom Vilsack knows it.”What we don’t want to do is compromise what we can get today for what may or may not be available in 2013,” he told reporters this week on a conference call.

But it’s not very popular with people who say the bill cuts food stamp benefits, as NPR’s Pam Fessler points out in her story on Morning Edition Friday.

“It is wrong to take money from food stamps to finance child nutrition programs,” Edward M.

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Soren soars in “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.” Share

If you’re planning on taking your kids to see “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole,” you should know that it’s not a kids’ movie. Or at least it’s not a kids’ movie in terms of what you might expect from an animated 3-D production about owls that’s rated PG.

The film is actually quite dark. It’s about war and revenge, kidnapping, enslaved creatures and the inevitability of violence.

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