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Bring back PE: Exercise should be 'core' class, report says

Children need a full hour of exercise in schools every day, and not just in physical education classes, the Institute of Medicine recommended on Thursday. Schools that have dumped education classes need to put them back on the schedule, the report recommends.

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Some H1N1 vaccine doses recalled

  Dec. 15: Health officials are recalling 800,000 doses of H1N1 shots. The doses are for kids 6 months up to age 3.

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