Tag: children’s health
Hepatitis B shot for newborns has nearly eliminated childhood infections with...
David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Before the United...
FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines with new restrictions, potentially limiting access...
David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Guidance around COVID-19 vaccines has once again shifted after the Food...
How federal officials talk about health is shifting in troubling ways...
Megan Donelson, University of Dayton
The Make America Healthy Again movement has generated a lot of discussion about public...
COVID-19 vaccines for kids are mired in uncertainty amid conflicting federal guidance
David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids...
RFK Jr’s shakeup of vaccine advisory committee raises worries about scientific...
Santosh Kumar Gautam, University of Notre Dame
On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a...
Teens say they can access firearms at home, even when parents...
Katherine G. Hastings, University of British Columbia and Rebeccah Sokol, University of Michigan
More than half of U.S. teens...
Drinking alcohol before conceiving a child could accelerate their aging –...
Michael Golding, Texas A&M University
The conditions within a person’s home, family and community affect their ability to stay...
Kids missing school: Why it’s happening – and how to stop it
Joshua Childs, The University of Texas at Austin
Chronic absenteeism – defined as a student’s missing approximately 18 days...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
