Tag: Children and Childhood

The percentage of American children estimated to have autism spectrum disorder increased in 2022, continuing a long-running trend, according to ...

As diagnoses of A.D.H.D. and prescriptions for medications hit new record highs, scientists who study the condition are wrestling with ...

During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons ...

In a rare sit-down interview with CBS News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, recommended the measles vaccine ...

The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable ...

The LatestMaternal diabetes, a pregnancy complication that can affect up to a third of women globally, is linked with a ...

A day after attending the funeral of an unvaccinated child who died of measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle international public health safeguards, pull funding from local health departments and legitimize health ...

When Alissa Torrez, 24, saw TikTok videos of parents doing the viral “cookie challenge” with their toddlers, she immediately wanted ...

The idea of getting her eldest child a smartphone had long felt inevitable, said Daisy Greenwell. But by early last ...

The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. ...

Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down ...

We live in a culture permeated by therapy, one in which people are eager to apply psychotherapeutic concepts to themselves ...

Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health ...

Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on ...

As more measles cases emerge around the country, doctors say they’re concerned that those infected may be at risk of ...

Kids need empathy alongside parental limits, and what you’re responding to with your stepdaughter is that this balance seems out ...

In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the ...