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Articles: Parents suggest dos and don'ts

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Parents magazine asked readers which child-rearing practices give them pause -- and which got their seal of approval. Some results:
Taking your baby with you to the movies -- 17 percent say it's a do; 83 percent say don't. Walking around naked in front of your 3-year-old -- 47 percent say it's OK; 53 percent say don't. Letting your baby sleep in your bed -- 49 percent say do; 51 percent say don't. Piercing a baby's ears -- 44 percent say it's a do; 56 percent say it's a don't. Letting your kids play with toy guns -- 59 percent say it's a do; 41 percent say it's a don't. Company to test weight-loss drugs Eli Lilly and Co. plans to begin clinical trials of five weight-loss drugs this year. Phase I trials, aimed at determining the safety of the drugs, are expected to begin by the end of the year, Lilly research adviser Mark Heiman said last week. At least one of the drugs deals with the body's energy expenditure and at least one would work by altering calorie intake, Heiman said. At least one other drug would address both issues, he said. The drugs would be Lilly's first entry into the highly competitive weight-loss market. In 2001, nearly 21 percent of Americans were considered obese, up from 12 percent 10 years earlier. Pain sufferers go it alone A new survey of 800 people living with chronic pain found they often denied the pain, delayed seeing a doctor and, when they did seek medical help, tended to shy away from treatment. The Americans Living with Pain Survey released May 6 by the American Chronic Pain Association also showed almost a third of Americans experience chronic pain at some point in their lives. At any point in time, about 50 million Americans suffer from persistent pain. Chronic pain is the No. 1 cause of adult disability and represents about $100 billion in lost productivity each year, according to the report. Test confirms Alzheimer's Dallas doctors have come up with a test to help confirm the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. In the latest issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, a team led by Dr. Frederick Bonte of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reports that a brain scan can be used to identify a characteristic sign of the disease. The researchers used a technique called SPECT to study blood flow to a region of the brain called the posterior cingulate. In patients with Alzheimer's, blood flow to that region was reduced. But people with different types of dementia, known as frontotemporal diseases, had normal blood flow to that region. Frontotemporal diseases are sometimes hard to distinguish from Alzheimer's. Being able to distinguish the different dementias will be important if researchers can come up with a treatment for Alzheimer's. Free Press news reports

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