Children's Health Matters is a column that shares the latest reporting, research, commentary and ideas on pediatric health and child development; prevention models to reduce health disparities for ill children and children born into poverty; links between maternal and children’s health; and broader trends in children's health and well-being.
Learning suffers when schools fail to provide free, easy access to tampons and pads.
“It can happen to anybody. It doesn’t care about your age, your race or orientation. Just look at my kids.”
“One of my clients called me crying because she couldn’t even find the campus counseling center.”
“Parents of young children should be as worried about RSV as they are about COVID,” said one professor of pediatrics.
The trouble with writing about shared parenting in general is the discussions about it tend to boil down to ideology, which good reporting seeks to overcome.
As the omicron surge disrupts schools nationwide, new research finds that kids forced to learn online instead of in person exhibited more behavioral issues.
As the Surgeon General warns of a youth mental health crisis, a psychotherapist asks: where are the policies that would help kids get care?
The research is nascent and the early results conflicting, but there are some worrying signs.
Here’s how reporters can investigate contamination in their communities.
