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Recipes for Valentine’s Day Desserts

A Valentine’s Day dessert calls for something heart-shaped, pink, red, chocolate or a combination of all of these. Whether you plan to serve dessert as the final touch to a Valentine’s Day dinner or to bring dessert to the office as a holiday treat, you’ll want to serve something that reflects the holiday, shows off your baking creativity and satisfies every sweet tooth.

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Sore Throat Treatments for Babies

While your baby can’t speak up and tell you that he has a sore throat, you’ll probably be able to tell when his throat hurts him by its bright red color and by changes in his behavior. Since it hurts to swallow, he may not want to eat or may cry when you try to feed him. Most sore throats in infants are caused a cold or the flu, although some babies may have allergies, tonsillitis, or in rare cases, strep throat.

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Boys’ Self-Esteem Problems

Its parent-teacher night at a private middle school in New Jersey. Students have been asked to sit in as teachers inform their parents of their progress. A sixth-grade boy, whose mother asks he be identified as Dan, squirms as his teacher tells his parents hes not trying hard enough in school. He looks away as the teacher directs his parents to a table of projects the class has done on ancient Greek civilization. Some projects are meticulous works of art, with edges burned to resemble old parchment. Dans title page is plain and unillustrated, and hes left an e out of Greek. Youll never get anywhere if you dont try, says Dans father as they leave the classroom. I dont understand, says Dans mother, whose two older daughters got straight As in school without her intervention.

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About Pregnancy Ultrasounds

Ultrasounds use sound waves to produce an image so doctors can observe fetal growth and development. Doctors rely on pregnancy ultrasounds to estimate fetal age, as well as the locations of the fetus and the placenta inside the uterus. Doctors also use ultrasounds to confirm the number of fetuses present and to record heart rate. Later in pregnancy, ultrasounds can even detect some birth defects, such as club foot or cleft palate.

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Nizoral for Hair Loss

Nizoral, the brand name for the medication ketoconazole, is commonly prescribed in shampoo form to treat dandruff and other scalp problems. However, Dermadoctor.com reports that in 2001, researchers presented study results to the American Academy of Dermatology that suggested Nizoral shampoo could not only prevent dandruff, it also increased hair thickness and lessened hair loss in users. Another study suggests Nizoral can be used to treat male pattern baldness. Nizoral shampoo is simple to use, with few side effects.