May 29, 2026
(The Free Press) – ‘I don’t want my little girl to die,’ Cissy Dekker said about her 19-year-old daughter, Iris. ‘But out of love, I also don’t want this life for her.’ The symptoms began early in Iris’s adolescence. In … Read More
May 26, 2026
(STAT News) – Advisory offers ways to reduce exposure, including bell-to-bell school bans, tech design changes Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is issuing a U.S. surgeon general’s advisory urging families, schools, and providers to reduce children’s screen time, according … Read More
May 21, 2026
(NPR) – For years, schools nationwide have struggled with hiring and retaining special educators. In the 2024-25 school year, 45 states reported special education teacher shortages, and staff turnover is worse in schools that largely serve low-income students, like Riverview. … Read More
May 15, 2026
(After Babel) – A new survey of U.S. parents by the Institute for Family Studies suggests that kids are still overprotected in the real world and underprotected online. Are norms around childhood and technology actually changing? Looking at policy both … Read More
May 13, 2026
(AP) – Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages. That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in … Read More
May 11, 2026
(Wired) – These cuddly, connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned. Consumer groups argue that AI toys, in the form of soft teddy bears, bunnies, sunflowers, creatures, and kid-friendly “robots,” … Read More
May 6, 2026
(ProPublica) – Their autopsies, which took place over the last several years, all came to the same conclusion: The deaths were caused, in whole or in part, by a rare but potentially fatal condition known as vitamin K deficiency bleeding. … Read More
May 5, 2026
(Vox) – A medical field that almost died is quietly fixing one disease at a time. In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks … Read More
April 28, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – The Trump administration’s decision to drop the long-standing recommendation that newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth will likely lead to hundreds of additional infections among children, along with more cases … Read More
April 28, 2026
(WSJ) – The Trump Administration last week moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Is the goal to reduce America’s collective IQ? The main practical effect of the Justice Department’s reclassification of cannabis as a Schedule III drug … Read More
April 23, 2026
(The Economist) – SORRY, YOUNGER siblings. On standard measures of success, such as educational achievement and income, first-borns do better. Why? Stereotypes cast eldest children as responsible and younger ones as rebellious—but large-scale studies find no meaningful link between birth … Read More
April 21, 2026
(Bloomberg via MSN) – Measles has been spreading in the US, reaching infection levels not seen in decades and threatening the country’s elimination status. This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 1,748 infections as of April 17 — … Read More
April 20, 2026
(Compact Magazine) – Marijuana remains the most misunderstood vice in America. Our large and growing marijuana industry depends on obscuring the well-documented connection the drug has to a wide variety of severe physical and mental health issues, as well as … Read More
April 20, 2026
(BBC) – A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say. A virus, called RSV, affects many babies in the first few months of … Read More
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
