I worked on special reports today so the producer created a little medical segment which I'm getting ready to do here in about a half hour. One of the stories is interesting: Kids who spent more time with mom weigh less and kids who spend more time with dad weigh more.

Here is a link to the full report.. it's a WHOPPER at more than 200 pages, but we're really only interested in the summary/conclusions which you can find right there in the index.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ccr19/

And here is a link to the FDA's reponse to the study that was the genesis of the portable defibrillator story that I ran last week.

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01429.html

Happy Monday!!
sstricklen@kgw.com

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