April 22, 2021 Parents of boy killed by alligator at Disney World advocate for pediatric organ donation in new campaign The parents of the 3-year-old boy who was tragically killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World are advocating for pediatric organ donation in a new campaign, coinciding with National Donate Life Month this April.
April 21, 2021 Death of 7-month-old Queens boy ruled homicide: cops The October death of a 7-month-old Queens boy has been ruled a homicide.
April 16, 2021 Rep. Ritchie Torres’ Big Idea: Create permanent monthly child allowance payments to parents The Big Idea is a series that asks top lawmakers and figures to discuss their moonshot — what’s the one proposal, if politics and polls and even price tag were not an issue, they’d implement to change the country for the better? Â
April 14, 2021 Half of kids with coronavirus-linked MIS-C have neurological symptoms, study finds Half of children in a small study who had a rare but serious inflammatory illness following a coronavirus infection developed neurological symptoms, early findings suggest.
April 14, 2021 Snoring linked to learning hurdles in kids, study finds Snoring — and the health issues it creates — is a problem long presumed to be reserved for adults. But new research reveals that snoring children are suffering during waking hours too.
April 12, 2021 Unusual treatment shows promise for kids with brain tumors For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science’s best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kids’ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack.
April 9, 2021 Rick Perry: Biden sending message to cartels that 'it's OK to sexually traffic children' across border The Biden White House has sent a permissive message to human traffickers with its response to the southern border crisis, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told "Your World" Friday.
April 9, 2021 As America's youth faces mental health 'crisis,' Biden admin sets focus on pandemic's impact on children The Education Department on Friday issued the second volume of its COVID-19 guidelines to address the emotional and mental-health impact of the pandemic on America's students.
April 7, 2021 Most children with MIS-C experienced only mild coronavirus symptoms prior to inflammatory illness: study Most children who developed the rare but serious multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) that occurs weeks following a coronavirus infection had no or only mild symptoms of COVID-19 when they were initially infected, according to a new study that’s said to be the largest analysis of such cases in children in the U.S.Â
April 6, 2021 Nearly 40,000 kids lost a parent to COVID-19, study suggests An estimated 40,000 children in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to COVID-19, new findings suggest, with adolescents accounting for the majority of the total.