PRINTABLE PAGE Britain Bans Boy Soldiers Going To War By Michael Smith, Defence CorrespondentOriginally published in the Daily Telegraph (U.K.), March 29, 2002 Britain is to end its centuries-old policy of sending boy soldiers into battle after deciding to ratify…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Few Psychotropics Have Data for Use in Children By Betsy Bates, Los Angeles BureauOriginally published in Pediatric News 33(3):27, 1999 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Just because the Food and Drug Administration has approved a psychotropic drug for use in…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Medicare HMO Drug Benefits Hard to Compare: Report Originally published by Reuters Health, May 17, 2002 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Seniors enrolled in Medicare HMOs need more and better information to help them compare prescription drug benefits…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Man Accused of Child Abuse Allegedly Threatened Friend By Douglas Belkin and Mac Daniel, Globe StaffOriginally published by The Boston Globe, July 27, 2001 SALEM — When she was 13, Patrick McMullen’s daughter reportedly confided to her father’s…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Harsh Chinese Reality Feeds a Black Market in Women By Elisabeth RosenthalOriginally published in The New York Times, June 25, 2001 GAOSHI, China — When a man offered Feng Chenyun temporary work in another city, she jumped at…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Childhood Sexual Abuse and Risk Behaviors Among Men at High Risk for HIV Infection Colleen DiIorio, PhD, Tyler Hartwell, PhD and Nellie Hansen, MPH For The NIMH Multisite Hiv Prevention Trial GroupOriginally published in the American Journal of…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Wife Sent to Prison for Role in Rape Originally published by The Associated Press, July 10, 2002 LANSING, Mich. — A teenager who survived a suicide pact that killed her husband was sentenced to prison Wednesday for her…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Judge Considers Abandoned Girl’s Fate Originally published by the Detroit Free Press, May 16, 2001 PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge is expected to decide within a week the status of the parental rights of a woman who…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Nursing-Home Assaults Skyrocket in Mass. By Kay LazarOriginally published in The Boston Herald, March 17, 2002 Reports of sexual and physical assaults on nursing-home residents—often by other patients—have risen dramatically in Massachusetts over the last several years, a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Years Later, Some Charge Sexual Abuse By Nuns By Robin WashingtonOriginally published in the Boston Herald, June 3, 2002 A half-century after his Catholic school boyhood, John Kerrigan says he is still haunted by the memories: a figure…