By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service

In some families, it's as straightforward as a 13-year-old declaring him or herself too old to continue seeing a "baby doctor."

The city is crammed with people -- citizens, visitors, and soldiers -- many from distant places. In the overcrowding, sanitation, food and water supplies are all disrupted. And people begin to get sick and die. The streets and houses fill with bodies, and social order breaks down.

Pediatricians and other family care physicians have been complaining for years that the prices they're charged for childhood vaccines and the amounts they're reimbursed by insurers for giving the shots puts them in a financial bind.

Yes, this is a trick question. But follow your gut instinct.What part of your body weighs in at about 3 pounds, contains tens of trillions of cells -- more than 5,000 different types -- and is probably unique in each individual? One more hint -- hates antibiotics.

Grandparent care rules.Not only are young children safer from injury in the care of grandma than anyplace else, but caring for the grandkids also doesn't seem to take any particular toll on her health, either.Several recent studies show that fears for the grandkids' safety with elders or worries that older adults can handle long stints with tots are unfounded.

WASHINGTON -- For all the change supposedly blowing into Washington in this election, the face of the new Congress, aside from having around two-dozen more Democrats, won't change all that much.To be sure, there will be new people around the U.S. Capitol -- about 60, in the House and at least nine in the Senate.

The playful snap of a towel in the locker room is ill-advised. Shower flip-flops are fashionable. And while sweat is still admirable in athletics and fitness, it's more important than ever to avoid sharing equipment, uniforms, even furniture, that comes into contact with the skin.

Here's a November surprise: what pols promise during campaigns really tends to guide what they do once elected.Political candidates, at least those elected to Congress in recent years, do at least try to follow up on most of the priorities they claim in their campaign ads, according to a new study by an Illinois political scientist.