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NEARLY two million children die of diarrhoea each year, even though treating the ailment is relatively simple and "almost miraculous", the World Health Organisation said today.

A 7-year-old Long Island girl was released from a New York hospital Tuesday, more than a month after surgeons removed six of her vital organs to tackle a life-threatening tumor.

Good student. Starting quarterback. Aspiring hunter. By most accounts, 11-year-old Jordan Brown was a typical boy in his rural Pennsylvania community, albeit raised mostly by his father after his mother gave him up.

Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman became unhinged with fear last year when she thought she had lost one of her children, repeatedly telling an emergency dispatcher, 'Oh God, I'm going to kill myself.'

Swimming lessons aren't just fun and games for toddlers. They also prevent kids from drowning, according to a study published today in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Nearly 200,000 children a year die from drowning,...

A new study finds that impulsive kindergarten kids are more likely to be placing bets by the time they're in sixth grade. Canadian researchers studied 163 kindergarteners in 1999, asking teachers to note whether the youngsters were inattentive, easily distracted...

Police in Ohio say a woman has been charged with child endangering after another motorist reported she was both breast-feeding a youngster and talking on a phone while driving.

Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.

The father of a missing 5-year-old Florida girl said he and his girlfriend have taken and passed polygraph tests.

The Southern California mother of octuplets receives $490 a month in food stamps and three of her first six children are disabled and receiving federal assistance, her publicist confirmed Monday evening.