updated 7:30 AM EST, Wed February 15, 2012 
As children become obese, they’re outgrowing school furniture, clothing and growth charts. STORY HIGHLIGHTS
(CNN) — In middle school, Taylor LeBaron struggled to fit into his seat. The desks in class had a ceramic plate attached to the chair.
“I was so large, I couldn’t fit in there,” said LeBaron, now 19. “Every other student could. I couldn’t get my legs to fit underneath the desk or my stomach to fit between the chair without getting the desk stuck with me.
“It was really embarrassing.
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Tags: Child, Child Sizes
The END7 Campaign is dedicated to building awareness of diseases that infect more than one billion people worldwide
Launched today, the END7 campaign is dedicated to eliminating seven major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as a public health threat to poor communities by the end of 2020.
NTDs infect one in six people worldwide, including 500 million children, and carry a higher health burden than malaria and tuberculosis.
Tags: Diseases, Diseases 2020
In December, CBS 11 reported about 7-year-old Zach Guillot, a Dallas first-grader who is undergoing chemotherapy for a rare form of leukemia.
He was diagnosed with the disease two-and-half years ago and has already undergone a bone marrow transplant. His younger brother, Jake, generously donated it to him.
That worked briefly, but the cancer returned in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. He now needs a donor outside the family to step forward.
In our original story, Dr. Victor Aquino called the need for another donor a “life or death matter.”
Doctors say the boy may not be able to survive another relapse, should symptoms return.
Well, each year the Yavneh Academy, an Orthodox Jewish high school in North Dallas, teams with Carter Bloodcare to host a blood drive. Thi
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Every club, coach and player is constantly on the lookout for the ultimate training methods, as they try to get the edge on their opponents.
Training is hugely important, which is why football players are punished if they step out of line. Take, for example, Man Utd’s Wayne Rooney, who got into trouble with his manager over Christmas. His lacklustre performance following a night out saw him dropped from the team and fined.
On the blue side of Manchester, City boss Roberto Mancini believes players need to be reminded that they have to work hard to achieve success. All players are the same, he says.
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Tags: Training, Training Tactics
In what’s being called a landmark study, researchers used gene therapy to successfully treat six patients with severe hemophilia, a blood-clotting disorder.
The study was preliminary and involved only six patients, and other promising early attempts to use gene therapy against hemophilia ultimately failed. But a single infusion using the new treatment worked in some patients for more than a year, boosting their clotting ability significantly.
“I think this is a terrific advance for the field. It’s a good lesson in terms of don’t give up on good ideas,” said Dr. Ronald Crystal, chairman of genetic medicine at New York City’s Weill Cornell Medical College,
It’s “truly a landmark study,” said Dr.
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