July 4, 2024
(ProPublica) – Fetal death records are often missing cause of death, race and other crucial information. ProPublica found that the problem is only getting worse. From a public health perspective, fetal death certificates provide essential data that helps shed light … Read More
July 3, 2024
(BBC) – A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and “quietly end his life”. Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and … Read More
July 3, 2024
(Newsweek) – Scientists may soon be using “intelligent onesies” to identify autism, ADHD and other neurodivergent conditions in babies by analyzing their movements. As part of an ongoing study, researchers from the University of Sussex, England, are using outfits equipped … Read More
July 2, 2024
(New York Times) – Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed. A.I. companies are heavily marketing themselves to schools, which spend tens of billions of … Read More
July 1, 2024
(New York Times) – The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject from a president who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights. The White … Read More
June 26, 2024
(ABC News) – Many states are failing to track how frequently children in foster care facilities are abused, sexually assaulted or improperly restrained, leaving them vulnerable to mistreatment, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in … Read More
June 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age minimums for surgery in minors because of concerns over political fallout. Email excerpts from members of … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Axios) – Youth mental health has begun to improve after major pandemic dips, new data shows. Why it matters: The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare students’ struggles as well as a fractured system to help them navigate recovery. Some of the recovery, though, trails pre-pandemic mental … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Axios) – Addressing America’s gun violence crisis requires a public health approach, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in an advisory Tuesday. Why it matters: The surgeon general’s advisory, one of the most significant tools his office has to draw the public’s attention to a … Read More
June 25, 2024
(BBC) – A boy with severe epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to trial a new device fitted in their skull to control seizures. The neurostimulator, which sends electrical signals deep into his brain, has reduced Oran … Read More
June 24, 2024
(ABC News) – In the wake of Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published Monday shows. The analysis out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher infant … Read More
June 24, 2024
(New York Times) – The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a Tennessee law that bans certain medical treatments for transgender minors, the first time the justices will decide on the constitutionality of such statewide bans. The move could … Read More
June 21, 2024
(WBUR) – British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass led a highly anticipated independent scientific review of gender health services for children in England, commissioned by the National Health Service. Now popularly known as the ‘Cass Review,’ it concludes for most young … Read More
June 21, 2024
(The Verge) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed two bills into law on Thursday that aim to protect kids and teens from social media harms, making it the latest state to take action as federal proposals still await … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Findings align with undisclosed internal research at Meta, which has pledged an ‘age-appropriate’ experience for teens; company says testing isn’t representative of their experience. Instagram regularly recommends sexual videos to accounts for teenagers that appear interested … Read More
June 20, 2024
(NPR) – Pixar’s new movie, Inside Out 2 came out Friday. It’s the sequel to the 2015 movie Inside Out, which followed 11-year-old Riley and her family as they move to San Francisco. In the first movie, audiences meet Riley’s core emotions – … Read More
June 18, 2024
(Generation Tech) – Self-harm is much more common among girls than among boys, so we’ll focus on girls. The CDC keeps data on emergency room admissions for intentional self-harm, and the 2022 data were just released. The news is not good. ER admissions … Read More
June 18, 2024
(New York Times) – The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor. Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of anxiety and … Read More
June 17, 2024
(Associated Press) – The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people’s lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, … Read More
June 12, 2024
(KFF News) – Marketing by e-cigarette companies, touting the allure of fruity or candy-like flavors and names, led many teens to try vaping. As more high schoolers and younger kids experimented with e-cigarettes, physicians and researchers warned it could lead … Read More
June 10, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Big tobacco companies and their critics agree on at least one thing: The illegal, fruit-flavored, disposable vapes that are popular among teenagers have flooded the U.S. market and federal regulators haven’t done enough to stop it. … Read More
June 6, 2024
(CNN) – Teens who spend lots of time on social media have complained of feeling like they can’t pay attention to more important things like homework or time with loved ones. A new study has possibly captured that objectively, finding … Read More
May 24, 2024
(UPI) – Doctors have long known that excessive marijuana use can trigger psychosis, especially in the young. But new research suggests the link is stronger that ever imagined before. Teens who use cannabis face 11 times the odds for a … Read More
May 24, 2024
(Associated Press) – Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s … Read More
May 23, 2024
(NPR) – About 1 in 9 children in the U.S., between the ages of 3 and 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD. That’s according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that calls attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder … Read More
