Tag: Children and Childhood

At Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings, beginning on Wednesday, senators are expected to question him closely about his controversial ...

When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, ...

Over the past year, Muanema Fakira noticed something odd about the eyes of her 1-year-old daughter Sumaya. Her left eye ...

Rates of sudden unexpected infant death in the United States increased by nearly 12 percent from 2020 to 2022, according ...

Before their immune systems mature, young children are especially vulnerable to infections — and to falling far more ill than ...

In pediatricians’ offices across the country, doctors are increasingly confronting concerns from parents about vaccines that for decades have protected ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often trained his criticisms of vaccines on a common ingredient: aluminum, which he has suggested ...

Howard Buten, a college dropout from Detroit, juggled three extraordinary lives.In one, he was a tender, clumsy and wordless red-nosed ...

There were more than more than 32,000 cases of whooping cough in 2024, the highest tally in a decade. In ...

Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there ...

Water fluoridation is widely seen as one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century, credited with widely ...