More troubling statistics are out today on the number of children taking prescription medications for chronic diseases that once were mostly confined to adults. Our story, by Stephanie Desmon, says there's been a surge in the numbers of children being treated for diabetes and asthma, according to a study that appears today in the journal Pediatrics. The rise is seen by doctors as caused in large part by the childhood obesity crisis.

Add this to last week's New York Times report on kidney stones showing up in kids as young as 5, and a parent has to wonder if there's any way to keep a child healthy in 2008, and what the future holds.