August 13, 2025
(BBC) – The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to do. … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago. Parents have debated the risks and benefits of publishing pictures of their children online … Read More
August 11, 2025
(New York Times) – As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems. As legalization and commercialization of cannabis have spread across the United States, making marijuana edibles more readily … Read More
August 8, 2025
(AP) – Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only countries where transmission of polio — which is highly infectious, affects mainly children under 5, and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours — has never been interrupted. The worldwide campaign has focused … Read More
August 4, 2025
(NPR) – A new federal report finds that the percentage of adults with suicidal thoughts and attempts remained about the same between 2021 and 2024. But the analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health did offer some … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Wired) – Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. After putting the children on antiretroviral drugs early … Read More
July 30, 2025
(NBC News) – Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is deadly in more than a quarter of kids diagnosed with the inflammatory brain disease. Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a … Read More
July 30, 2025
(CNET) – TikTok is introducing a suite of parental controls, community notes and AI enhancements that strive to make the short-form video social media platform safer for teens, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Family Pairing, a feature … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Wired) – Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike. Ultimately, though, it’s not … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday systemic weaknesses in the oversight of the global pharmaceutical supply chain have resulted in medicines formulated with poisonous chemicals claiming lives and compromising the health of patients, mainly children. In a … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – A baby born at only 21 weeks of gestation last July in Iowa City, Iowa, has just celebrated his first birthday, and among his gifts is a Guinness world record for most premature baby. Nash Keen was … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Highly realistic baby dolls have become a global phenomenon, with collectors shelling out for luxury baby gear and doting on their ‘reborns’ as if they were human children When I told a dollmaker that I’ve never … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A Wall Street Journal investigation found parents were told nothing could be done for their infants even when other nearby hospitals could offer care Hospitals would be required to disclose how they make key decisions regarding … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Associated Press) – “Everyone uses AI for everything now. It’s really taking over,” said Chege, who wonders how AI tools will affect her generation. “I think kids use AI to get out of thinking.” For the past couple of years, … Read More
July 23, 2025
(Wired) – Summer. For teens not at work, it’s hot, it’s boring, and it’s an ideal time to close the door and spend about every waking moment watching, playing, texting, streaming—anything but talking—on the phone. With almost half of teenagers … Read More
July 23, 2025
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 22, 2025
(NBC News) – Teen-friendly promotion of the product is spreading on social media. Adding to the concerns is a caffeine pouch startup from a former Juul marketing executive. The use of caffeine pouches among teens is still relatively rare. But … Read More
July 16, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – Data released this week by the World Health Organization and UNICEF indicate modest gains in childhood vaccination rates, but globally, more than 14 million children remain unvaccinated. Last year, 89% of infants globally (~115 million) received at … Read More
July 16, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – New study is among first to examine cancer risk among people exposed to lower levels of environmental radiation People who spent their childhood in the 1940s, ’50s or ’60s living near Coldwater Creek, a tributary of … Read More
July 15, 2025
(Axios) – Use of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss rose sharply in kids and adolescents after the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2023 recommended offering medications along with lifestyle adjustments such as healthier eating and exercise. Why it matters: The … Read More
July 11, 2025
(ABC News) – “The trauma has become severe,” Yaméogo said of Diallo’s condition as she attended to him recently at the Sanou Sourou University Hospital in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso. “Cases like (Diallo’s) must be treated within the first six … Read More
July 9, 2025
(Washington Post) – Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the World Health Organization’s Africa region. The first malaria drug for newborn babies and those weighing less … Read More
July 8, 2025
(BBC) – The first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use. It’s expected to be rolled out in African countries within weeks. Until now there have been no approved malaria drugs specifically for … Read More
July 8, 2025
(Axios) – Children’s physical and mental health declined across multiple measures over the 17 years ending in 2023, according to new research led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Why it matters: The findings published Monday in JAMA offer some … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Axios) – There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year, almost 4.5 times the total for all of last year and on track to pass the highest annual count since the disease was declared eliminated … Read More
