$19,000 is the cost per obese child in lifetime medical costs, totaling $14 billion for the obese 10-year-olds in the United States, said researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. They reported their results in the journal Pediatrics. los angeles times
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Family members and a lawyer say they have been blocked from access to the bedside of Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez, while her husband was detained and shipped to Texas within 24 hours.
