KIDS who sleep with the light on could risk leukaemia, parents were
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+ ?+ S o& ]4 Ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbScientists have found the body needs darkness to produce a chemical
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melatonin being made, they say.
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University Prof Russell Reiter, who led the research, said: 'Once you
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'Your brain immediately recognises the light as day and melatonin
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Rates of childhood leukaemia have doubled in the past 40 years.
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About 500 youngsters under 15 are diagnosed with the disease each year and around 100 die. A conference on childhood leukaemia in London yesterday
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