September 14, 2026
(The Guardian) – California governor hails ‘nation-leading’ legislation banning addictive features for users under 16 California has adopted what Gavin Newsom described as “nation-leading” legislation that bans addictive social media features for young users, regulates companion chatbots and implements new … Read More
September 11, 2026
(The Atlantic) – The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now. The social-media industry is having a moment of reckoning. By agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion to 47 states, the District of Columbia, … Read More
September 4, 2026
(Ars Technica) – About 1 in 500 babies in the Old Order Amish population of Pennsylvania is born with the condition. Infants with the disorder only survive for about six months. Diamontoni confirmed to Lancaster Online that while microcephaly was … Read More
September 4, 2026
(NYT) – A new policy announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using artificial intelligence, but stops short of a moratorium. When New York City public schoolchildren return to the classroom next week, younger students will be … Read More
September 4, 2026
(Wired) – With the risk of infection rising, parents and their children are trying to navigate how to safely be out in public as school starts back up. As students head back to school, parents have all the usual worries … Read More
September 3, 2026
(NYT) – Dayna Mooney chose alternative remedies over the recommendations of her son’s doctors. Was that her right as a parent or a threat to his care? Two weeks earlier, a judge had issued a court order for Presten, who … Read More
September 3, 2026
(USA Today) – The federal government is accusing children’s hospitals and health care providers, including several in Ohio, of millions of dollars in insurance fraud by pushing transgender youth care services on patients to line their own pockets. However, industry … Read More
August 24, 2026
(Nature) – Massive genomic newborn-screening studies are under way all over the globe. But questions about scalability, feasibility and net benefit remain. BabyScreen+ is just one of dozens of initiatives around the globe that is assessing the feasibility of expanded … Read More
August 20, 2026
(NYT) – The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users. OpenAI announced on Tuesday “ChatGPT for Teens,” a new mode in which the chatbot automatically limits some conversations to … Read More
August 18, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and … Read More
August 18, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Sitting in Xander’s room watching Moxie and Xander talk, I too could believe in the potential Scassellati sees. But Xander isn’t getting the therapy Moxie was initially meant to deliver, and though we didn’t know it … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for detailed vaccine policy to emerge from the White House President Trump signed a new executive order Monday calling for most children to receive fewer vaccines and made some of his most … Read More
August 11, 2026
(The Atlantic) – AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains. As a pediatric surgeon, researcher, and technologist who has spent decades studying how children’s brains develop, I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children … Read More
August 6, 2026
(NYT) – The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids. Isabella, who lives outside Atlanta, is one of an estimated four million children in … Read More
August 5, 2026
(Science) – A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability Although news that base editing saved “Baby KJ” would soon rocket around the world—Science named the feat one of the runners-up for its 2025 Breakthrough … Read More
August 5, 2026
(NYT) – South Korea, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, is in the throes of a breakdown in emergency care. It is particularly acute for at-risk newborns. Neonatal doctors say that government measures to reverse the birthrate … Read More
July 28, 2026
(WSJ) – President is focused on shots’ alleged tie to autism, even though White House advisers wanted to tone down attention to issue ahead of midterms At a May lunch at the president’s golf course in northern Virginia, President Trump … Read More
July 27, 2026
(Wired) – Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease. This isn’t just a … Read More
July 22, 2026
(NYT) – Doctors said the arrival of Emily, Harriet, Catherine and Alexa, who were conceived naturally and split from one fertilized egg, is an extremely rare event. An Australian woman gave birth last week to naturally conceived identical quadruplet girls … Read More
July 20, 2026
(First Coast News) – A St. Augustine surrogate mother is fighting for custody of the children she birthed after she says the intended parent from China never picked them up. Simpson said she did not hear from the intended parent … Read More
July 15, 2026
(New Scientist) – An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now being tested on more patients The experimental treatment, called tumour-associated antigen (TAA) T-cell therapy, was given to 33 … Read More
July 8, 2026
(NYT) – A lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense, an organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claims that vaccines caused the twins’ deaths. But a grand jury in Idaho has indicted her on charges of suffocating them. Three days … Read More
July 3, 2026
(New Scientist) – Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers Babies are born with an innate sense of numbers, and now, the brain mechanisms behind this ability have … Read More
July 2, 2026
(The Economist) – The genomic generation is on its way Freddie is part of the Generation Study, an English programme which plans to sequence the complete genetic code of 100,000 babies. The idea is both to screen them for genetic … Read More
June 30, 2026
(WSJ) – Some prosecutors believed they had enough to charge Abbott Laboratories, but senior officials opted for civil settlement Some prosecutors believed they had evidence to criminally charge the company under a law they have used to pursue other businesses … Read More
