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News Articles: Children's Health

Routine childhood vaccination rates have been dropping across the U.S. and vaccine-preventable childhood diseases have been rising.

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  • Children's Health

What happens when a vaccine skeptic leads health policy? Ask Florida

Among the names being floated to head the Department of Health and Human Services are RFK Jr. and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. Both are vaccine skeptics, which worries pediatricians.

November 13, 2024
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  • Maria Godoy
Pedestrians walk along a road engulfed in thick smog in Lahore, Pakistan, on Nov. 11. Lahore, a city of 14 million people and stuffed with factories, regularly ranks among the world's most polluted cities. It's hit record levels this month.

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  • Global Health

Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is 'frustrated' but won't give up

The government in Lahore has closed schools and public spaces and shut down factories. Environmental lawyer Ahmad Rafay Alam shares his perspective: "frustrated" but still fighting.

November 13, 2024
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan

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  • Family

Why it’s so hard for parents to let their kid quit

Piano lessons and soccer practice can encourage grit. But if your kid isn’t into it, it can become a stress-inducing obligation. Here’s how to have hard conversations with your child about quitting.

November 09, 2024
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  • Becky Harlan
A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient

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  • Health

Public health officials return to Walton High School to read TB test results

About 300 students at Walton High School in Cobb County who may have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB) underwent skin tests on Tuesday.

October 30, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Mycoplasma pneumonia causes upper respiratory symptoms, including a lingering cough. It can also cause red eyes or rashes.

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  • Health

Walking pneumonia is spiking, especially in kids. Here's what to know

If you or your kid has a cough that's been lingering, it could be a case of mycoplasma pneumonia. Cases are rising across the U.S. The good news — it's usually mild and easily treated. Here's how.

October 30, 2024
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  • Maria Godoy
Dr. Kelsey Leonardsmith (left) with colleague Dylan Flunker in the garden of Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis. The two run a program to train more doctors and nurses in the region to be able to provide gender affirming care, which is legal in Minnesota, but banned for youth in dozens of states around the country.

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  • Health

Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Here's how doctors are meeting the need

As more states ban gender care for youth, doctors and clinics in Minnesota are building up capacity to help the influx of trans patients who are traveling or moving to the state for care. 

October 25, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Sulhee Jessica Woo's cookbook is a collection of 150 globally inspired lunchbox recipes. The six featured here include (from left to right, counterclockwise): cucumber veggie rolls and peanut dipping sauce; mozzarella, tomato and spinach pesto panini; cucumber toast; sausage French toast roll-ups; pepperoni and mushroom pizza roll-ups; and turkey, avocado and cheese pinwheels.

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  • Food

PB&J again? Banish lunchbox boredom with these 6 creative, kid-approved recipes

Sulhee Jessica Woo, author of a new cookbook, "Let's Make Some Lunch," shares healthy and fun meals that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less.

October 25, 2024
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  • Margaret Cirino
The FDA issued three health alerts about lead in cinnamon in 2024, after dangerous amounts of the harmful element were found in children's applesauce packets last fall.

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  • Food

Lead in cinnamon: Where do things stand, 1 year after a scary recall?

Last Halloween, the FDA said that some cinnamon, a spice loved by many kids and adults, was contaminated with lead, a metal that can cause irreversible damage in babies and young children.

October 25, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's also become riskier warn pediatricians.

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  • Health

Youth cheerleading is getting more athletic — and riskier

As the female-dominated sport gets more acrobatic, girls are racking up more concussions and other injuries. A new pediatricians' report calls for change.

October 24, 2024
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  • Pien Huang
Veronica, 17, of Des Moines, Iowa, with her estrogen pills. A new study shows a very low rate of regret among kids taking puberty blockers or hormones as part of gender-affirming care.

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  • Health

New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care

The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Crocs are comfy, water-resistant foot-wear that are popular with kids, but some podiatrists say they should be alternated with more sturdy shoes.

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  • Children's Health

Lots of kids wear Crocs, but are they bad for young feet?

Crocs — those colorful clog like shoes - are popular with many kids and teens. But doctors say foot problems could be possible if they're worn constantly. Here's what to know if your kid wears Crocs.

October 08, 2024
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  • Maria Godoy

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  • Family

The tricky etiquette of parenting in public

Your little one is having a meltdown at the park. Everyone is looking at you. What do you do? A psychologist offers parents advice on how to help their kid (and themselves) navigate the chaos.

October 05, 2024
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  • Emily Siner
Eight-year-old Brithany Morales is the first patient to arrive at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital on Sunday, Sept. 29. (Courtesy of Children’s Healthcare)

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  • Children's Health

Children’s Healthcare moves into Arthur M. Blank Hospital in Brookhaven

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta closed Egleston Hospital on Sunday, Sept. 29, using 65 ambulances to move 202 patients into the brand-new Arthur M. Blank Hospital on North Druid Hills Road. 

September 30, 2024
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  • Logan Ritchie
Apalachee High School buses on Monday Sept. 23, 2024

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  • Mental Health

Apalachee High School students return to counselors, therapy dogs and hugs from friends, teachers

Monday’s four-hour open house allowed Apalachee High School students and their parents to walk through the building and reconnect with teachers.

September 25, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A school bus moves at Apalachee High School, after the school reopened almost three weeks after a deadly shooting on campus, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Winder, Ga.

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  • News

Weeks after a school shooting, students return for classes at Apalachee High School

Students have begun pouring into Apalachee High School weeks after a school shooter killed two students and two teachers. Some students were still uneasy Tuesday about returning.

September 24, 2024
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