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The CDC’s current crisis has been building since Trump’s first week in office and boiled over after Kennedy fired the agency’s newly appointed director.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently released new obesity management guidelines in order to help address the growing obesity crisis in children.
Children don’t have to be in physical danger for disaster images to have a powerful psychological impact.
The CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine provider agreement prohibits health care professionals from administering the vaccines in people for whom they are not yet authorized or approved. But this departs from longstanding norms.
A study of 800 Black American families shows early experiences of racism have long-term consequences for physical and mental health.
As their kids get older, should parents should be more – not less – vigilant?
For decades, parents have fretted over ‘screen time,’ limiting the hours their children spend looking at a screen. But as times change, so does media… and how parents should (or shouldn’t) regulate it.
The lead author of a new American Academy of Pediatrics statement summarizes important guidelines for children’s use of electronic devices.
Kids who watch educational programs such as ‘Sesame Street’ show better academic skills. But this does not mean all children can learn from educational media.
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.









