In January, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued its new clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and treatment of overweight and obese children and adolescents. The health of an estimated 14.4 million U.S. children and adolescents is affected by obesity and the trend is escalating. In 1963, five percent of children and adolescents were…
‘Unimaginable:’ 2 Children Dead, Infant Hospitalized
DUXBURY, Mass.—A 32-year-old mother in Massachusetts is expected to be charged in the killing of her two children and the injuring of her infant son, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Wednesday. Authorities arrived at a house in Duxbury on Tuesday night after receiving reports that a woman jumped out of a window. They found…
Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccination Against Infection in Children: Study
Children with natural immunity were better protected from COVID-19 infection and hospitalization than children who were vaccinated, according to a new study. Children aged 5 to 11 with post-infection protection, or natural immunity from an infection with Omicron or a subvariant, and no vaccination had 88.4 percent protection against reinfection, researchers in North Carolina found….
School System Failing And Is No Longer There to Educate, Says Teacher
America’s education system has failed, according to a teacher and charter school enthusiast. And now parents search for new schools, surveys show. “The goal of the education system today is no longer to educate. It’s to do everything but that,” Dan Fisher told the Epoch Times. Fisher teaches 10th grade at a high school whose…
Why Parents Should Let Go of the Notion That Children Need to Be Supervised 24/7: Parenting Expert Lenore Skenazy
When Lenore Skenazy speaks, parents listen. It all started back in 2008, when Skenazy wrote an audacious newspaper opinion piece about how she allowed her 9-year-old son to ride the New York subway alone. From then on, she was immediately dubbed “America’s worst mom.” And that label spurred the leader within her to start the…
Doctors Have Doubled Antipsychotic Prescriptions to Children and Youth: Study
Despite the lack of evidence of the safety of antipsychotics in children, who are smaller in size and still rapidly developing, the number of prescriptions to English youth has doubled between 2000 to 2019, a study suggests. The researchers from the University of Manchester examined over seven million children and adolescents aged three to 18. They discovered…
Anti-Psychotic Prescriptions for Children in England Have Nearly Doubled in a Decade
The number of children and young people prescribed anti-psychotic drugs in England almost doubled between 2000 and 2019, according to new research. A study by the University of Manchester’s Centre for Women’s Mental Health published in The Lancet Psychiatry looked at the records of 7.2 million children and adolescents, aged 3 to 18, registered at…
Social Media Bosses Could Face Jail If They Breach Rules on Children Under UK’s Online Safety Bill
Tory MPs are planning an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would make tech executives criminally liable for children’s duty of care failures. Conservative MP Miriam Cates and other MPs including Sir William Cash, Andrea Leadsom, Julian Lewis, Lia Nici, Tim Loughton, Lee Anderson, and former Home Secretary Priti Patel are backing an amendment (pdf)…
Afghan Hospital Wards Fill With Children Suffering From Pneumonia
KABUL—In a bitterly cold bedroom at the start of winter in Kabul, 22-year Maryam sat with her baby son bundled up in a red jumper as he coughed days after being discharged for the third time from a hospital ward for suspected pneumonia. Every time 10-month old Rahmat’s parents bring him home from the crowded,…
England Sees 39 Percent Rise in Children Needing Help for Serious Mental Health Problems
Figures show more than a million children need treatment for serious mental health problems, including eating disorders, in the time since lockdowns were imposed in England. NHS data analysed by the PA news agency show a 39 percent rise in a year in referrals for NHS mental health treatment for under-18s, to 1,169,515 in 2021…
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