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Could Your Kid Benefit From Counseling? Experts Offer 3 Questions To Help You Decide
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (901+ words) Health Q's Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer share know-how for parents navigating the decision to seek out mental healthcare for a child. Divorce rocked the lives of Marcela Cabay and her daughter, who was a preschooler at the time. But…...
Michigan Found a Way To Reduce School Vaccine Waivers. Until It Backfired.
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (1748+ words) PORT HURON, Mich. " State health officials urged parents in several counties to vaccinate babies against measles ahead of schedule this spring as cases multiplied in Michigan. The outbreaks of the highly contagious virus " which can lead to brain swelling, deafness,…...
ICE Arrests Are Separating Families. Here's How To Plan Ahead.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (174+ words) Depression. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Developmental delays. The trauma of family separation can have serious health consequences for children. On WAMU's May 13 "Health Hub" segment, KFF Health News correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez discussed what families without legal status can do if…...
Kids Keep Getting Stuck in Hospitals, Even After Being Cleared for Discharge
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1042+ words) Across the country, the practice of allowing children to remain hospitalized "beyond medical necessity" has become a costly problem, and states have struggled to address the issue. Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage…...
RFK Jr. s Vaccine Panel Expected To Recommend Delaying Hepatitis B Shot for Children
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1183+ words) A federal vaccine panel, recently reshaped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , is expected to vote on delaying the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Pediatricians warn that could open the door to a comeback for a disease…...
States Update Guardianship Laws To Keep Children of Immigrants Out of Foster Care
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (412+ words) As family separations caused by immigration enforcement ramped up last year under President Donald Trump, I wondered what happens to the children whose parents are detained or deported. I found that some have been placed in foster care if they…...
Medi-Cal Immigrant Enrollment Is Dropping. Researchers Point to Trump's Policies.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (735+ words) This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. For months, a cloud of fear has hovered over the immigrant community in San Bernardino, California, making it hard for Mar'a Gonz'lez to do her job…...
States Change Custody Laws To Keep Children of Detained Immigrants Out of Foster Care
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1008+ words) This story also ran on The 19th. It can be republished for free. By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Illustration by Oona Zenda April 14, 2026 As immigration authorities carry out what President Donald Trump has promised will be the largest mass deportation operation in…...
Listen: What the Vaccine Schedule Whiplash Means for Your Kids
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (161+ words) This story also ran on WAMU. It can be republished for free. By Julie Rovner April 3, 2026 LISTEN: After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's efforts to pare down childhood vaccine recommendations, plenty of questions remain " like how annual vaccines…...
State-Run Insurance Plans for Foster Kids Leave Some of Them Without Doctors
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1309+ words) By Andrew Jones April 2, 2026 Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came back late…...