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    COMIC: A Kids' Guide To Coping With The Pandemic (And A Printable Zine)

    Nov 17, 2020
    It's been months of the pandemic and you might be feeling frustrated or upset. But there are lots of different ways to deal with your worries — like giving yourself a big hug!
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    Juggling Financial Stress And Caregiving, Parents Are 'Very Not OK' In The Pandemic

    Sep 30, 2020
    The pandemic economy is squeezing families with kids: 74% of those earning less than $100,000 report serious financial woes, in an NPR poll. Experts worry about lasting impacts on kids' mental health.
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    Lead exposure has been an issue for many years. Above: Women and children from lead-contaminated villages rest on mattresses during testing and treatment for lead poisoning in a ward at the Doctors Without Borders clinic in Anka, Nigeria, in 2010.
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    'Silent Epidemic': Nearly 1 In 3 Kids Exposed To Damaging Levels Of Lead

    Jul 29, 2020
    It's the first time global data has been gathered on the extent of the problem. Experts are calling it a "groundbreaking" report. And the ill effects can last for a lifetime.
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    Spending quality time with kids and listening deeply to them is one way to help them tame anxiety. Here Mariano Noesi and Maryam Jernigan-Noesi play with their 4-year-old son Carter.  Jernigan-Noesi is a child psychologist.
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    Kids Feel Pandemic Stress Too. Here's How To Help Them Thrive

    Jul 11, 2020
    For children, the distress shows itself in difficult moods, stomachaches or even regression to behaviors from earlier childhood. Here are seven ideas to help anxious kids feel better.
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    U.S. Children With COVID-19 Less Likely To Be Hospitalized Than Adults

    Apr 06, 2020
    A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that between 5.7% and 20% of children with COVID-19 end up in the hospital, with 2% or fewer needing intensive care.
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    A drug implant was prescribed for an active 8-year-old girl diagnosed with central precocious puberty. The price of one option was thousands of dollars less than the other.
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    Hormone Blocker Sticker Shock: Kids Drug Costs 8 Times More Than One For Adults

    Feb 24, 2020
    Two nearly identical drug implants have very different prices. The one for kids has a list price of $37,300. For adults, it's $4,400. A dad fought for his daughter to be able to get the cheaper drug.
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    Girls carry containers of water filled from the local communal tap Zimbabwe, which is in the grip of a nationwide drought that has been linked to climate change.
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    Why Climate Change Poses A Particular Threat To Child Health

    Nov 14, 2019
    A sweeping study in The Lancet finds that longstanding progress in treating diseases and reducing childhood deaths is in jeopardy.
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    Nathaly Sweeney, a neonatologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and researcher with Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, attends to a young patient in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
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    Fast DNA Sequencing Can Offer Diagnostic Clues When Newborns Need Intensive Care

    Oct 28, 2019
    Rapid genome decoding and analysis have made it possible to quickly diagnose some baffling rare diseases that make babies sick. Even when there's no cure, the information can help families cope.
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    Alex, at 4 years and 11 months old, throws a toy football.
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    A Boy's Mysterious Illness Leads His Family On A Diagnostic Odyssey

    Oct 16, 2019
    Alex Yiu was born a seemingly healthy baby. But by age 2, his muscle control and speech were deteriorating. His baffling condition took a decade to diagnose. The reanalysis of a DNA test was the key.
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    Youth Mental Health Advocates: Hospital's Closure Is Part of Bigger Problem

    Oct 10, 2019

    In August, state regulators told Montevista Hospital in Las Vegas to stop taking new patients.

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    The rate of uninsured children has risen in the last two years, after declining since 2008.
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    Fewer Children Had Health Insurance In 2018 Than Year Before, Census Data Shows

    Sep 10, 2019
    After years of decline, rates of uninsured children on on the rise. Immigrants and Hispanics saw large growth, possibly because of Trump administration policies.
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    An analysis of air quality and childhood asthma in Los Angeles found that kids' health improved when smog declined.
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    When LA's Air Got Better, Kids' Asthma Cases Dropped

    May 21, 2019
    New cases of asthma dropped dramatically in Los Angeles communities where air quality improved the most over 20 years. The results illustrate health benefits from pollution control.
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    Dr. Randall Bly, an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine who practices at Seattle Children's Hospital, uses the experimental smartphone app and a paper funnel to check his daughter
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    A Smartphone App And A Paper Funnel Could Help Parents Diagnose Kids' Ear Infections

    May 15, 2019
    While there are thousands of health-related apps around, one being developed at the University of Washington stands out because it uses a phone's microphone and speaker to make a a medical call.
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    Even if a genetic test could reliably predict obesity risk, would people make effective use of the information?
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    How Helpful Would A Genetic Test For Obesity Risk Be?

    May 06, 2019
    Behavior and environment are big factors in a surge in obesity. Scientists are busy trying to identify the many genes that play a role in weight gain to develop a predictive obesity test.
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    A child takes in the sights under blooming Japanese cherry trees at the Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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    Greener Childhood Associated With Happier Adulthood

    Feb 25, 2019
    Research suggests the more of your childhood that is spent surrounded by green spaces, the lower your risk of developing mental illness in adulthood, whether in the city or the country.
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    Measles is a highly contagious illness that can cause serious health problems, including brain damage, deafness and, in rare cases, death. Vaccination can prevent measles infections.
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    Defying Parents, A Teen Decides To Get Vaccinated

    Feb 09, 2019
    Ethan Lindenberger had never received vaccines for diseases like polio or measles because his mom is anti-vaccine. Now he's 18, he's finally getting his shots.
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    First lady Melania Trump with 10-year-old Grace Eline, a guest of President Trump at the State of the Union address Tuesday. Grace was diagnosed with brain cancer last year. Trump cited her experience in calling for more research into childhood cancer tr
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    Trump Highlights Health Agenda And Vows To Lower 'Unfair' Drug Prices

    Feb 06, 2019
    The president's State of the Union address laid out a series of goals, including lowering prescription prices, pursuing an end to the HIV epidemic and increasing research for childhood cancers.
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    Though his politics are right of center and he lobbied hard against the Affordable Care Act, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch also has been key to passing several landmark health laws with bipartisan support.
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    How Sen. Orrin Hatch Shaped America's Health Care In Controversial Ways

    Dec 31, 2018
    Republican Orrin Hatch is leaving the Senate after 42 years. He led bipartisan efforts to get health care for more kids and AIDS patients. He also thrived on donations from the drug industry.
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    Chris holds a plastic syringe he and his wife use to administer homemade medical marijuana oil to their 13-year-old son, Dylan, who has autism.
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    After Other Options Fail, A Family Tries Medical Marijuana For Son With Autism

    Dec 25, 2018
    Rhode Island is among a growing number of states allowing children with autism to be treated with medical marijuana. The benefits are unproved and the full extent of the risks are unknown.
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    U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said Tuesday that local restrictions, including bans on indoor vaping, are needed to reduce youth e-cigarette use.
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    Surgeon General Warns Youth Vaping Is Now An 'Epidemic'

    Dec 18, 2018
    U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a forceful advisory about vaping by U.S. teenagers, saying electronic cigarette use among young people has reached levels that require urgent action.
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    A survey finds 1 in 5 high school seniors was vaping nicotine in 2018.
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    Teen Vaping Soared In 2018

    Dec 16, 2018
    A dramatic increase in vaping among high school students is the largest yearly change ever seen in a long-running survey tracking substance use and abuse by teens.
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    Schoolchildren in Namibia, which scored high marks for "child-friendliness" in a new ranking of African countries.
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    Africa Takes A Tough Look At Africa — And The Way It Treats Its Children

    Dec 04, 2018
    A new "child friendliness" index praises such countries as Namibia and Lesotho — and "names and shames" poor performers.
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    The number of children in the United States without health insurance jumped to 3.9 million in 2017 from about 3.6 million the year before, according to census data.
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    Number Of U.S. Kids Who Don't Have Health Insurance Is On The Rise

    Nov 28, 2018
    Economic growth usually means more kids get health insurance, but that's not been the case during the Trump years, a study shows. For the first time in a decade, the uninsured rate for children is up.
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    Researchers zeroed in on the ages of kids when they enrolled in kindergarten to investigate discrepancies in ADHD diagnoses.
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    Youngest Children In A Class Are Most Likely To Get ADHD Diagnosis

    Nov 28, 2018
    Harvard University researchers probed the way ADHD is assessed by taking advantage of a quirk found in many U.S. school systems that means some kids are a year younger their classmates.
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    FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he wants to ban menthol cigarettes because teenagers often become addicted to nicotine by smoking them.
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    FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking

    Nov 15, 2018
    In its latest effort to curb smoking by young people, the FDA wants to outlaw menthol cigarettes. The agency would also restrict sales of flavored e-cigarettes to reduce youth addiction to nicotine.
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