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Friday, March 7, 2008
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Rihanna helps Mom with leukemia find bone marrow donor: Grammy award winner Rihanna used her celebrity to spread the word and help Lisa Gershowitz, a mother of two with leukemia, find a bone marrow donor. A Mom•Logic Mom even got tested. A match was found, and Lisa is now waiting to undergo the life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Case renews debate on vaccine-autism link: Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund, reports CNN. While the government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism, many parents and advocates for autistic children see the case as a victory.

Dateline tune-in alert: Tonight on Dateline, 15-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf shares terrifying details of being kidnapped and held in a bunker for 10 days last year by a ruthless abductor. Her Mom calls her an amazing survivor.

Dad puts kids in dryer, stands trial: A Kansas dad says he was looking for a little cheap entertainment when he put his girlfriend's 2- and 3-year-old children in a dryer, and that he didn't mean to cause them any harm. We'll leave you to comment on that one.

More Info: Rihanna, Vaccine-Autism ConnectionDateline, Dryer

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