April 17, 2026
(NYT) – Nearly 600 people have been sickened across the state, which has seen an increase in vaccine exemptions among children in recent years. Utah has become a hotbed of measles cases in the United States, as a long-simmering outbreak … Read More
April 15, 2026
(Wired) – Latifi, an investigative journalist, raises serious ethical questions about parents broadcasting their kids online, particularly when they may be too young to consent to do so. And some of the anecdotes she provides about parents pushing their kids … Read More
April 1, 2026
(NPR) – Early research on social media’s impacts on teen mental health focused mostly on how much time they spent on these platforms, with some studies finding more time being linked with worse mental health symptoms, particularly depression. But in … Read More
April 1, 2026
(KFF Health News) – The clinical trial among preterm infants that Abbott subsequently sponsored, known as AL16, is a case study of corporate warfare in the high-stakes business of infant nutrition, wherein preemies have been coveted like commodities; their anxious, … Read More
March 27, 2026
(Comment) – Reflections from a Canadian public policy researcher. Tracy’s story has reverberated through the years. Amid news in 2018 that Robert Latimer was applying for a pardon or a new trial, my friend Taylor Hyatt, who lives with cerebral … Read More
March 25, 2026
(WSJ) – Jurors found the companies negligent and said their app designs caused harm to children A jury found Instagram’s owner Meta and YouTube negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those … Read More
March 24, 2026
(CNET) – The New Mexico ruling comes as a Los Angeles jury is still debating whether Meta’s social media platforms are addictive to children. A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that Meta violated the state’s consumer protection laws by misleading … Read More
March 20, 2026
(Wired) – After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable. Amaurie’s case is part of a growing number of lawsuits brought by parents who say their children died … Read More
March 17, 2026
(The Atlantic) – A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or something else? Oosterhoff’s patient had no physical illness, fatal or otherwise; he concluded, rather, that she … Read More
March 13, 2026
(Arab News) – Somali conjoined twins Rahma and Ramla have been successfully separated from each other at the King Abdullah Specialized Children’s Hospital of the Ministry of the National Guard in Riyadh, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said on Thursday evening. (Read … Read More
March 11, 2026
(NPR) – There’s new evidence that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can reduce the risk of addiction. A study of more than 600,000 veterans followed for up to three years found that those who started taking a GLP-1 drug for diabetes … Read More
March 4, 2026
(Forbes) – Major artificial intelligence companies may have age policies in place to restrict the use of their models by children, but that isn’t stopping a growing number of developers from using generative AI chatbots in toys sold globally that … Read More
March 4, 2026
(The Guardian) – As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to a chatbot ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human Phillips’s district has used Alongside, an automated student monitoring system, for … Read More
March 3, 2026
(NYTs) – Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent. By Tuesday, the outbreak centered in Spartanburg County had grown to 990 cases, mostly … Read More
March 3, 2026
(BBC) – Parents using Instagram’s child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on the platform. It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches … Read More
February 27, 2026
(MedPage Today) – A first in-human, phase I trial examined feasibility as well as safety In-utero treatment of myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida, with allogeneic, live stem cells was feasible and safe, a first in-human, phase I, … Read More
February 26, 2026
(New York Times) – Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information, lack plot structure and can be cognitively overwhelming — all of which could affect young children’s development. The New York Times … Read More
February 25, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Obstetrician Jeanne Conry has long paid attention to the “1,300-day window”— the months before conception through a child’s second birthday. Studies show nutrition and lifestyle during this period can shape pregnancy outcomes and the long-term … Read More
February 24, 2026
(KFF Health News) – As U.S. hospitals face an increasing risk of encountering measles, and pressure to immediately spot it, health care workers face an unusual barrier: Many don’t know what it looks like. “There’s a word, ‘morbilliform’ — it … Read More
February 18, 2026
(Washington Post) – Some critics and physicians said Elizabeth Bruenig’s second-person account of a mother confronting a child’s death from measles felt misleading once they learned the story was reported fiction. Bruenig’s stirring account of a mother’s experience learning her … Read More
February 13, 2026
(Ars Technica) – The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as “unethical,” because it would withhold an established, safe, and potentially lifesaving vaccine against hepatitis B from some newborns in Guinea-Bissau, Africa. … Read More
February 12, 2026
(NPR) – A new report from Congress has raised the alarm about children with mental health conditions being held in juvenile detention, rather than getting treatment. “Prolonged Incarceration of Children Due to Mental Health Care Shortages,” released Thursday by the … Read More
February 11, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Three leading social media companies have agreed to undergo independent assessments of how effectively they protect the mental health of teenage users, submitting to a battery of tests announced Tuesday by a coalition of advocacy … Read More
February 10, 2026
(PBS) – The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, began … Read More
February 9, 2026
(The New Yorker) – A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else? When Elliott asked about the baby’s name, Silvia shared that it was Hays, and, when Elliott asked for a … Read More
