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Love is in the air and stamps are on the Valentines in the Sweetheart City
2+ hour, 23+ min ago (239+ words) There's still time to put a stamp on a local Valentine's Day message from the Sweetheart City. Loveland's Valentine Remailing Program is an 80-year-old collaboration between the city and the U-S Postal Service. Volunteers add a special postmark to love…...
For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why?
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (659+ words) One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half " from nearly 10 million deaths a year to under 5 million deaths…...
CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (1537+ words) Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate children against more than a dozen other infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, whooping cough…...
CDC's vaccine advisers are likely to make a controversial change to long-used vaccine
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (1537+ words) Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate children against more than a dozen other infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, whooping cough…...
Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (279+ words) A nonprofit children's safety organization, Fairplay, is urging gift givers to avoid buying AI toys for children this holiday season, according to an advisory issued on Thursday. Fairplay, along with other child and consumer advocacy groups, say these toys " playthings…...
The latest climate solution for rural Colorado? Career education in the skilled trades
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (1099+ words) This is the first story in a three-part series, "Greener Pastures," which explores climate workforce development in rural Colorado. Coloradans take pride in knowing our mountain towns are little slices of paradise. But apparently, even heaven needs its industrial zones....
Families say cost of housing means they'll have fewer or no children
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (803+ words) Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series'Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World'explores the causes and implications of this trend. At an indoor…...
Finland's stubbornly low birth rate shows why a population shift may be inevitable
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1367+ words) Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World explores the causes and implications of this trend. On…...
Families are having fewer kids. Housing prices are one of the reasons why
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (877+ words) A sea of toddlers threw around colorful blocks and balls at an indoor play center in Cheyenne, Wyo. Twenty-one-year-old Grace Moreno was there with her 11-month-old, who was dressed in pajamas with little firetrucks on them. "It's the only free…...
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (703+ words) New survey data finds that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with artificial intelligence. And 42% of students surveyed say they or someone they know have used AI for companionship. That's according…...