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Mary Poppins was right: A spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down, according to the results of a new study.

The original article can be found at: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/05/13/2898424.htm

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This is a sound story that provides detail about the study clearly and easily understood terms. The story would have fulfilled more of our rating criteria and been awarded a higher score if it had presented the results as absolute rather than relative. The decrease in crying and pain is 20% but we are not told what this means - 20% of what?

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