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Could your kid benefit from counseling? Experts offer 3 questions to help you decide
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (1024+ words) Produced in partnership with: 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…...
State-run insurance plans for foster kids leave some of them without doctors
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1273+ words) 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 last year. Ollie's parents,…...
Vaccine panel's hepatitis B vote signals further turbulence for immunization policy, public trust
6+ mon, 6+ hour ago (1190+ words) When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That's when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. "I was 18, healthy, in college,…...
Lice pose no health threat, yet some parents push back on rules to allow affected kids in class
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (798+ words) Parents in Massachusetts, Texas, Ohio, and Georgia are petitioning for their districts to revive strict rules on nits and live lice. Any evidence of lice was once a reason for immediate dismissal from school, not to return until the student's…...
Sesame Street characters aim to boost children's health in collab with Phreesia
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (862+ words) Sesame Street characters will help kids and parents understand healthcare issues. Going to the doctor can be a scary thing for kids " especially if they don't know what's going on." To remedy that information gap and put kids at ease…...
Ickey Woods and Connect Biopharma team up to tackle acute asthma attacks
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (456+ words) The partnership aims to broaden education and fundraising opportunities for the foundation. Fifteen years ago, former Cincinnati Bengals running back Elbert "Ickey" Woods lost his 16 year old son, Jovante, to an acute asthma attack. Now, he has channeled his grief…...
Survey: 77% of Lagrant ethnic minority scholarship alumni have comms jobs
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (274+ words) The foundation's biennial alumni survey explores its impact on scholarship recipients. The Lagrant Foundation's most recent biennial scholarship alumni engagement survey found that 77% of its ethnic minority scholarship alumni report current employment within organizations serving the communications industry. Administered to…...
Fearing Medicaid coverage loss, some parents rush to vaccinate their kids
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1165+ words) For two decades, Washington, D. C. , pediatrician Lanre Falusi has counseled parents about vaccine safety, side effects, and timing. But this year, she said, the conversations have changed. "For the first time, I'm having parents of newborns ask me if their baby…...
Content, community and credibility: Reaching aspiring parents in today's fertility ecosystem
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (329+ words) In honor of World IVF Day, Ferring Pharmaceuticals reflects on how to best reach aspiring parents. July 25 is World IVF Day, marking the birth of the world's first baby born through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1978. It's a day that…...
Kennedy's HHS sent Congress 'junk science' to defend vaccine changes, experts say
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (897+ words) A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s decision to change U. S. policy on covid vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others. One health…...