April 22, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – Social media became a place of both solace and torment. How much was mine to share? The urge to consult my phone overpowered me. I could already perceive how it was mediating my relationship with … Read More
April 22, 2025
(UPI) – Texas health officials said Tuesday reported measles cases have now surpassed 600 with most of it affecting children and teenagers in a historic outbreak. The Lone Star state reported 624 cases of measles since January, the Texas Department … Read More
April 22, 2025
(CBS Minnesota via MSN) – Wisconsin health officials are calling a significant spike in congenital syphilis over the last several years “especially concerning.” On Thursday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services released a report that shows overall rates of sexually … Read More
April 22, 2025
(The Guardian) – Most of 51 brands tested, including those for children, contained dangerous heavy metal Most of 51 brands of toothpaste tested for lead contained the dangerous heavy metal, including those for children or those marketed as green. The … Read More
April 22, 2025
(Pew Research Center) – Most teens credit social media with feeling more connected to friends. Still, roughly 1 in 5 say social media sites hurt their mental health, and growing shares think they harm people their age Rising rates of … Read More
April 17, 2025
(Wired) – Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other diseases could be next. As the United States grapples with rising measles cases and outbreaks in … Read More
April 16, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The kids and their caretaker got off on their floor, leaving me to ponder the cootie phenomenon for the first time in many decades. Beyond being amused, I was struck by the morbid salience of a children’s … Read More
April 15, 2025
(NBC News) – One in 31 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by their 8th birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. The finding, based on an analysis of medical records from … Read More
April 15, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Phones and screens play an important role in the show. At home, Jaime, the 13-year-old accused killer, has a computer in his room, which his middle-class father was proud to be able to give him. At school, … Read More
April 14, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it. As time passed, Swanson began to grow uneasy. He and his colleagues … Read More
April 11, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Nationwide, psychiatric “boarding” — when a patient waits in the emergency room after providers decide to admit the person — has increased because of a rise in suicide attempts, among other mental health issues, and a … Read More
April 11, 2025
(NBC News) – After his niece took an over-the-counter DNA test, McMahon learned that he wasn’t actually related to his family at all. It was his sister Carol Vignola who first learned about the DNA test results and did some … Read More
April 10, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book “Careless People,” told U.S. senators during her testimony on Wednesday that Meta actively targeted teens with advertisements … Read More
April 9, 2025
(Undark) – More children are taking the hormone in the form of nightly gummies or drops. The long-term effects are unclear. On social media, parenting influencers film themselves dancing with bottles of melatonin gummies or cut to shots of their … Read More
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – While it was known that some staff members devoted to H.I.V. prevention in other countries had been lost, The New York Times has learned that all such experts have now been terminated or are awaiting reassignment … Read More
April 8, 2025
(The Guardian) – Meta is expanding its safety measures for teenagers on Instagram with a block on livestreaming, as the social media company extends its under-18 safeguards to the Facebook and Messenger platforms. Under-16s will be barred from using Instagram’s … Read More
April 7, 2025
(AP) – Three people have died from measles-related illnesses in the U.S. since the highly contagious virus started ripping through West Texas in late January. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all … Read More
April 7, 2025
(The Independent) – A quote from James after the publication of his caffeine study neatly underlines how Oster’s attitude diverges from the attitude of the medical establishment: “Certainly, there is no evidence to suggest that caffeine benefits either mother or … Read More
April 3, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – That eyebrow-raising encounter reinforced Padilla’s concern that AI companion bots, which can hold personal conversations with users and even form relationships, pose safety risks for minors, he said in a phone interview Monday. Now Padilla … Read More
April 3, 2025
(ABC News) – A unanimous Supreme Court on Wednesday backed the Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to authorize the sale of kid-friendly flavored e-cigarettes and vapes, including the flavors “Killer Kustard Blueberry,” “Rainbow Road,” and “Pineapple Express.” Justice Samuel Alito, … Read More
March 31, 2025
(NPR) – As a measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico continues to grow, and other states report outbreaks of their own, some pediatricians across the U.S. say they are seeing a new trend among concerned parents: vaccine enthusiasm. … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has “a possible link” to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico that have sickened more than 370, the state health department said … Read More
March 18, 2025
(NPR) – More and more people, like Morris, are facing the heightened emotions and challenging logistics of parenting with cancer. Cancer is spiking at alarming rates, especially among women under age 50. What was once predominantly an older person’s disease … Read More
March 18, 2025
(NBC News) – State legislators want greater oversight of the wellness industry after 5-year-old Thomas Cooper was killed in a hyperbaric chamber fire in January. Thomas Cooper was killed Jan. 31 when a fire broke out in a hyperbaric chamber … Read More
March 17, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The swift rise in diagnoses for everything from autism to ADHD may be doing more harm than good. What all of these diagnoses have in common is that they all have a severe form with a … Read More
