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Complementary and alternative medicines: adverse events.
Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) and therapies are often regarded as "natural" and, therefore, harmless. However, for the the vast majority of CAMs no formal testing or adverse event reporting mechanisms are in place. A study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood studied adverse effects associated with CAMs.
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Stable Family Relationships Associated with Later Onset of Puberty
Ellis and Essex have published data that suggests that girls brought up in a family with higher quality "investment" from their parents and lower reported parental conflict have later onset puberty. This study is published in Child Development. The age of onset of puberty (especially in girls) has been over the last 50 years and is associated with other factors such as BMI (body mass index).
 
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