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What should a teenage girl do if she finds a lump in her breast?

MAYWOOD, Il. -- If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy. However, breast cancer is rare in adolescents, and the vast majority of teenage breast lumps turn out to be benign masses that are related to hormones. A recent Loyola Univers...

Twelve Year-Old Girl With Facial Paralysis Is Smiling Again After Cutting-Edge Facial Plastic Surgery

As a two-year-old, Adyana developed facial paralysis following a routine cold. Although she and her family were otherwise happy and healthy, little Adyana could no longer smile. Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 -- Born in Puerto Rico, Adyana later moved to Florida...

Changes(TM) Kit for Girls - 'What Every Girl Wants.'

Essential survival gear for parents and guardians raising girls who are just entering puberty LOS ANGELES, May 12, /PRNewswire/ -- Changes (TM) is the leading product to help young girls navigate through the rocky road of adolescence . (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi...

Pregnant? Curious About the Baby's Gender? Know if It's a Boy or Girl at Six Weeks With IntelliGender's(R) In-Home Gender Prediction Test(TM) Now Available at All Walgreens Stores

Experience the joy of discovery with an affordable, at home, test. Achieve immediate results using the IntelliGender(R) Gender Prediction Test(TM) DALLAS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Walgreens, the nation's largest drug store chain with nearly 6,700 stores will carry IntelliGender(R), LLC's ( ...

Nolan Law Group Files Lawsuit on Behalf of the Parents of a 14-Month-Old Girl Killed in October 15th 2008 Medical Evacuation Helicopter Crash Near Aurora, Illinois

CHICAGO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A lawsuit stemming from the catastrophic October 15, 2008 crash of an Air Angels EMS Helicopter near Aurora, Illinois was filed today on behalf of Robert and Brooke Blockinger, who suffered the tragic loss of their 14-month-old daughter Kirstin Reann Blockinger....

Teen Pop Star, Chantel 'Chani' Christie, Launches the Chani Girl Foundation to Bring Education/Awareness on HIV/AIDS

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Chantel 'Chani' Christie, teen pop star, and daughter of NBA power couple Doug and Jackie Christie, is set to launch her new Chani Girl Foundation on December 1, 2008 which is World AIDS Day. To kick off her new charity she plans to donate 300 of her best...

Teen Girl Loses Hair But Gains Support

Peggy Knight provides solutions for hair loss and self esteem SAUSALITO, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- When Peggy Knight, of Peggy Knight Solutions, learned that a young woman was afraid to go to school because she had lost her hair and kids were teasing her, she took action. Peggy donat...

Hungry Girl and Fiber One(R) Team Up to Offer Delicious Ways to Get Your Fiber Fix

New Hungry Girl Book Features Tips and Tricks for Hungry Chicks Including Guilt-Free Recipes and Survival Guides MINNEAPOLIS, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Hungry Girl Lisa Lillien is offering tasty ways to rethink fiber. Lillien's new book HUNGRY GIRL: Recipes and Survival Strategies ...

'it' Girl Public Relations Adds 'O.N.I.' New Organic Food Delivery Service to Its Lifestyle Division

Optimal Nutrition Inc. Chooses 'it' Girl PR to help promote their delicious organic meal delivery service. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- "it" Girl Public relations, one of the leading Public Relations agencies in Los Angeles, expands their lifestyle division with the a...

Bayer Awards Making Science Make Sense Grant to Girl Scouts

Company Brings Global U.N. Environment Initiative to Northern New Jersey, Planting Trees and Providing Free Environmental Education Activities MORRISTOWN, N.J., Nov. 18, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reaffirming its commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, today Bayer emplo...

Connecticut Girl Fights Rare Neurological Disease

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The pain Mary Remotti feels when her body is touched by the even the softest bed sheet or as she lies motionless on her bed washes over her like the heat of an intense fire. Her eyes water as she endures a constant burning, tingling pain, which she...

March of Dimes Selects Pennsylvania Girl as 2008 National Ambassador

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expected to be her family's Halloween treat, Catharine Aboulhouda instead arrived on the Fourth of July, weighing 1 pound, 10 ounces. Today, the five-year-old of Allentown, Pennsylvania has been named the March of Dimes 2008 National Ambas...

New Undercover Video Shows Tucson Planned Parenthood Hiding Rape of 15-Year-Old Girl

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New hidden-camera footage from Tucson, AZ, implicates a third Planned Parenthood clinic in a multi-state child abuse scandal. In the video, UCLA student Lila Rose and her friend Jackie Stollar enter a Tucson Planned Parenthood clinic where Rose te...

Live Action: New Video Shows Indiana Planned Parenthood Covering Up Rape of 13-year old Girl

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New footage released today from an undercover camera inside an abortion clinic in Bloomington shows Planned Parenthood staff deliberately violating the state's mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse. The footage shows Lila Rose, a U...

Aflac to Sponsor Iron Girl

Insurer collaborates with the nation's leading all-women's event series to promote a healthy lifestyle NEW YORK, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac (NYSE: AFL ) has signed a multi year title sponsorship of Iron Girl. With 10 events nationwide, ranging from 5K/10K, duathlon and ...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

India plans a national mandatory registry of pregnancies and abortions to stem selective abortions of girl fetuses, a minister said, according to a report. India has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 females -- mainly due to selective a...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

India's unwanted baby girls have been drowned in milk, burned alive in sealed mud pots or fed milk laced with poisonous seeds, but these days it is much easier to kill them in the womb . These are some of the chilling anecdotes in a new book on how a traditional preference for sons in India...

Spice Girl Geri Halliwell Annoyed by the no Baby Contract

Spice girl Geri Halliwell is reportedly annoyed, for her upcoming tour bosses have asked her to sign a contract banning her from having kids till the gig is over . According to a source, although the pop singer was not planning to have another baby soon, she was bugged by the contract as no...

Sixteen-year-old UK Girl Demands Right to Wear 'purity Ring'

A 16-year-old schoolgirl has asked High Court judges to uphold her right to wear a ring symbolising her chastity. According to The Independent, Lydia Playfoot, who has taken a vow of sexual abstinence, accuses her school in West Sussex of discriminating against Christians after the headmas...

Its Boy and Girl Twins for Gurinder Chadha

British director, Gurinder Chadha gave birth to twins at a hospital in London, where she underwent an emergency Caesarean section on Friday, June 9. The 47-year-old and her husband of ten years, Paul Berges, welcomed the boy and girl twins, that were due to arrive only next month. ...

Art of Living Fights for Girl Child in Punjab

Punjab's abysmally low sex ratio - just 798 girls per 1,000 males in the 0-6 age group - has prompted various social groups, among them the Art of Living Foundation//, to tackle the practice of female foeticide. An 18-day campaign - Beti Sneh Sanjivni Yatra - by the Foundation in collaborati...

A Young Girl Loses Her Leg Due to Surgeon’s Carelessnes

Bhubaneswar: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly operated on her leg instead of her polio-afflicted hand in Orissa's coastal district of Jajpur, some 100 km from here, the// patient's father complained. The girl was a victim of an unusual case of polio affecting the hand, but the surgeons on Sat...

Brain-Damaged Girl Frozen in Time to Remain Child-Sized Forever

This is a story about a disabled nine-year-old girl, Ashley X, who will never grow up.// Ashley X, who had severe brain damages, is now sterilized and frozen in time, with the help of hormones, by which she could remain child-sized forever. Until New Year’s Day, not even her first name...

Insurance Cover for Girl Child

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has proposed insurance cover for each girl child to provide incentives //for the upbringing of girls. Under the scheme, an insurance cover of one lakh rupees will be provided for the girl child as a safety net and also to enable the girl to receive a lump...

Polio afflicts a girl despite vaccination

A 1-year-old girl has been diagnosed with polio in spite of receiving 9 doses of the polio vaccine. According to an official statement, polio can be prevented by 4-10 doses of the vaccine//. However, this does not hold true for this girl called Jannat. “Earlier she used to roam around the house...

Adolescent Girl Athletes More Likely to Injure Knees Than Boys

Adolescent girl athletes are as much as eight times more likely to injure their knee's anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) than their male counterparts, according to a recent study led by Morgan Stanley Children's// Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center. Published in ...

Disabled Girl Urges Kalam to Intervene Against the Denial of Admission

The girl from Orissa, who was denied admission to a medical college here because she was stricken with polio and certified with 87 percent disability, has urged President// A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to intervene. Susmita Haro, a topper in the Scheduled Tribe category of the state joint entrance exam...

Death of girl Suspected to be due to Bird flu Outbreak

The death of a nine-year-old girl with symptoms similar to H5N1 avian flu, has led to fears of an outbreak of the disease although health authorities has said// that it would take another day to confirm whether she death was because of the H5N1 virus. Geowthip Chiangin succumbed to high fev...

Blind Girl Students to Catwalk in Guwahati Fashion Show

Some of India's top models will sashay down the catwalk alongside eight blind girl students at a unique fashion show in this Assam city// . Preparations are on for the show 'Light Up the World' slated for July 17 at the ornate Pragjyoti cultural centre in Guwahati. Young fashion designer Himan...

Little Makoda-Poster Girl For Leukemia Awareness Campaign Losses Her Battle Of Life

Three-year-old Makoda Suen had passed away last Thursday from an acute form of leukemia. She was the poster girl for the B.C. Children's Hospital Foundation's latest awareness campaign for bone marrow donors//. Makoda Suen had passed away three months after a worldwide campaign was launched t...

Two-year old Girl With Polio Detected in UP

One more polio case has surfaced in Uttar Pradesh with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) surveillance team detecting a two-year-old girl affected with polio virus in the district //. WHO's Survillence Medical Officer Salman Khan today said that a two-year-old girl from Shahpur Tahar Khera...

Orissa Villagers Jubilant as Girl Cleared Class X Examination

A girl in Orissa's Bhadrak district has cleared the class X examination - a feat no girl of her village has achieved so far. // The Belagadia village, some 150 km from the state capital of Bhubaneswar, has around 800 residents comprising mostly farmers. It does not have a school. Jharan...

Health Experts Shocked As 11-year-old Girl To Be UK's Youngest Mother

The case of an 11-year-old girl who is all set to don the mantle of becoming the youngest mother in UK has shocked and frustrated health experts who maintain// that it is her age to play with dolls and not rear babies. The girl, whose identity is not being disclosed for legal reasons, is a resident...

Diabetic Girl Reported Missing

14-year-old girl, Stephanie Mullen, a type 1 diabetic has been reported missing in West Lothian. Fearing that the girl could have probably run out of medication// leaving her gravely ill, police have appealed for public attention in this matter. Stephanie left her home in Uphall, at 2 pm on Mon...

Boys Join the Race Along With Girl to Get a Stick like Figure

Boys also have become victims to disorders like anorexia and bulimia which has initially haunted the girls. But a UK study showed that 500 teenagers are affected //due to sheer peer pressure, families and friends. The research is published in the British Journal of Health Psychology. The authors wa...

12-year-old girl Accused for Murder of Three Family Members

A 12-year-old girl and her boyfriend have been accused of the murder of three family members whose bodies have been flown to Ontario. She made her second court appearance. // The victims were Marc Richardson, 42, his wife Debra, 48, and their son Jacob, 8 and a funeral visitation has been plann...

Reverse Heart Transplant Surgery On A Little Girl Makes History

A 12-year-old schoolgirl Hannah Clark from Mountain Ash in South Wales has undergone an astonishing 'reverse' heart. // The youngster had her first heart transplant ten years ago, carried out by transplant pioneer Sir Magdi Yacoub. The girl then enjoyed good health with the donor heart that Sir M...

Paralyzed Girl Pardons Her Offender

A six-year-old girl was magnanimous enough to pardon her offender who shot and shattered her spine, at a house in Dorchester, MA that resulted in paralyzing her from the // waist down. Sitting on a wheelchair, she forgave him in the court, where he was produced to face the trial. According to ...

Chinese Girl To Undergo Face Transplant Surgery

A face transplant surgery is expected to be conducted in China for the first time on a girl aged 11 years. Liu Fangyuan, the girl concerned had suffered extensive burn injuries // two years ago. The burn injuries were caused by her own aunt who used vitriol liquor in an act of revenge against the g...

Nigerian girl recovering well after removal of brain tumor

A Nigerian woman was ecstatic that she and her daughter traveled more over 6,000 miles to spend their Christmas in an intensive care unit // . Mariam Ameh’s 13-year-old daughter Faridah has been recovering well after journeying to Cleveland's Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, where doctor...