Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.
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When state health departments, federal health agencies and medical societies diverge, how is an ordinary person supposed to know whom to trust?
Even modest differences in lung function and growth across childhood can matter for long-term health.
Digestion produces heat, drinks can affect hunger and children’s intake naturally varies. Here’s what parents need to know.
The most important thing for parents to know is that the order does not change which vaccines are available to children and is not based on any new data about vaccine safety.
Most research on kids’ screen time has focused on a child’s behavior. Far less attention has gone to parents and their role in their children’s media use.
When you say ‘but aren’t you cold?’ what are you really asking? Kids will answer how they feel now; parents are planning ahead.
Unintentional injuries kill 20 US children every day. Building a family culture of safety can help them learn to make wise choices.
As rotavirus spreads this season, doctors worry that falling vaccination rates may endanger kids.
Women are at highest risk of being hurt or killed after separating from a potentially violent partner, but interventions such as taking away the former partner’s firearms can protect them.
Medicaid enrollment surged during the pandemic, then tumbled during the Great Unwinding – reflecting how paperwork and state policy determine who keeps health coverage.
A new study reveals how the lake bed’s toxic dust impairs lung development in children living nearby.
Exposure to lead remains one of the leading environmental risk factors for early death and poor health globally.
The judge’s decision is a win for public health, but the back-and-forth on vaccine policy may undermine the public’s trust in science.
A fear of needles can stop many children from getting a flu vaccine. But a new nasal spray will be available in 2026. Is your kid eligible?
Up to 30% of children with juvenile arthritis develop uveitis, an eye inflammation that can damage vision. New research highlights immune cells as treatment targets.
Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.
Liquid medicines are often messy, expensive and hard to give so why do they remain the default?
Public health scholars worry that the resurgence of measles may signal a coming wave of other vaccine-preventable diseases.
After decades of stalled progress, new vaccines, treatments and genetic tools are helping scientists protect children and save lives worldwide.
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, The Kids Research Institute Australia, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
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Team Lead, Healthy Skin and Acute Rheumatic Fever Prevention, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Endowed Professor of Health Policy and Associate Dean, George Washington University
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Paediatrician & Infectious Diseases Physician; Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
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Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Paediatrician and Associate Professor, UNSW
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Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Principal Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne