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Media WatchThe Internet, newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV news programs are all valuable sources of information about the latest developments in science and medicine. But the media has a tendency to focus on the sensational headline that can be gleaned from a particular study, event, or finding, sometimes to the detriment of its true meaning and significance. Here?s what a savvy parent should know about evaluating science and medical news reports.
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* Helping Your Children Cope with the News of Reported Terrorist Attacks
* America Under Attack: Talking Points Parents Can Use with Their Children
* Extra, Extra: 10 Tips on Evaluating Science News Reports
* Seven Sensible Tips for Evaluating Product Recalls
* How Social Scientists Prove Causality
* Standard of Proof: How Scientists Evaluate Claims of Cause and Effect
* Many Good Parents Choose Daycare
* Science Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
* False Alarm: How One Newspaper 'Spun' the Diaper Story
* What Research Has Taught about Child-Rearing
*  Sickle Cell: The Forgotten Disease Puts a Human Face on a Little Understood Genetic Disorder
* Cocaine Effects: The Challenges Researchers Face
* Preteen Clothing Struggles: Countering the 'Britney Effect'
* Morality in Harry Potter
* Folate and Pregnancy: New Report Shows that Women Still Aren't Getting the Word
* Violence in the News: Talking with Your Child
 Questions From Other Parents
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? Worried About Product Safety
? Making Sense of Terrorism
 CONSUMER ALERTS
*CPSC, K'NEX Industries Announce Recall of Children's Toys
*CPSC, Schylling Associates Inc. Announce Recall of More "Jack-In-the-Box" Type Toys
*CPSC, Zutopia (a division of Wet Seal Inc.) Announce Recall of Girl's Loungewear
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