KIDS who sleep with the light on could risk leukaemia, parents were
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across time zones, or the light from street lamps can stop enough
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University Prof Russell Reiter, who led the research, said: 'Once you
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) ], T. P3 _% G/ f/ ~# C5 Swww3.tvboxnow.comRates 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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lower rates of cancer, it was found.
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