Children

WASHINGTON – In one of the largest wage violation settlements ever reached for U.S. poultry workers, a federal court in Los Angeles has entered a consent judgment that orders Fu Qian Chen Lu, Bruce Shu Hua Lok and others as owners and…

WASHINGTON – In one of the largest wage violation settlements ever reached for U.S. poultry workers, a federal court in Los Angeles has entered a consent judgment that orders Fu Qian Chen Lu, Bruce Shu Hua Lok and others as owners and…

The Caribbean island nation continues to endure extreme insecurity, with widespread and incessant violence as rival gangs fight each other and the police for control of the capital, Port-au-Prince.The violence, which includes kidnapping…

Trigger warning: this article contains accounts of sexual violence. The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi led to the murder of more than 800,000 people, an estimated 70% of the country’s Tutsi population. The unprecedented…

Over 26 million enrolled students in the Philippines are confronted with the multifaceted impacts of climate change, including the possibility of El Nino bringing intolerable heat, more powerful typhoons, and limited access to water for…

Painting a grim landscape of the world’s war zones, Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, briefed ambassadors, citing grave concerns, from war-torn Gaza to gang-ravaged Haiti,…

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 21, 2024, that the word “child” also means frozen embryos, which are typically implanted via in vitro fertilization. Within a week of the decision, three of the state’s seven IVF clinics…

Taliban officials in southeastern Afghanistan said Monday that an overnight landmine explosion had killed at least nine children. The “unexploded mine” was a remnant of past conflicts that went off on Sunday as a group of young boys…

One of the priorities of the Closing the Gap reporting is that Indigenous cultures and languages are “strong, supported and flourishing”. It also calls for Indigenous students to “achieve their full learning potential”. These two…

A new group of young children has just started school for the first time, with many excited about new friends, uniforms and being at “big school”. But for trans kids, starting school can be a much more daunting process. They…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 22, 2018 COLUMBIA, S.C. - As schools wrap up another academic year, findings from a project aimed at improving the health of South Carolina's children highlight the benefit parents and communities can…

As we made our way down one of the city streets that bisect the Yale campus, cars zooming by, my daughter Mari swept her wide-eyed gaze across the grand Gothic cathedrals that are Yale’s residential colleges. “I…

1. IntroductionHearing skills play a crucial role in the development of hearing-impaired children who use personal sound amplification devices (PSAPs). According to the International Pediatric Audiology Association (IPAD), early and…

1. IntroductionWhile typical development social stimuli, such as faces and direct eye-gaze , will attract infants’ attentions from the first hours of life, a low interest in social aspects of the environment is considered to be an…

New York, NY, June 28, 2022 – Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, in collaboration with the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative launched a new public…

The 1997 Bringing Them Home report into the removal of Aboriginal children from their families was a turning point in Australia’s history. The inquiry rejected past government policies of assimilation and endorsed the importance of…

This in effect abolishes the monitoring of UN sanctions against the country, more commonly known as North Korea, blocking the extension of the panel for another year.Russia’s Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said the sanctions regime adopted…

1. IntroductionCircadian rhythms are biological cycles that follow a daily cycle. Cognitive and physical performance, sleep duration and quality, hormonal levels, and other physiological variables oscillate over a 24 h period. They are…

Health and Well-Being Matter is the monthly blog of the Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. We are failing our children and future generations. In the United States in 2020, nearly 1 in 5 children and…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB (Associated Press) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is…

Representatives of the European Union, Ministry of Labour and United Nations with participants at the PROTECT project launch. © ILO Bangkok, 26 March 2024 - The European Union (EU) announces a financial support of € 13 million to the…

In homes across America, an invisible threat may be lurking — one that could affect the health of our youngest and most vulnerable. Recent findings presented this month at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners…

“Countless children” are at risk of death in Haiti as gangs tighten their grip on power and the humanitarian crisis worsens, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said Tuesday. “The violence and instability in Haiti have…

“Countless children” are at risk of death in Haiti as gangs tighten their grip on power and the humanitarian crisis worsens, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said Tuesday. “The violence and instability in Haiti have…

Multiple crises worsened by climate change threaten lives of 45 million childrenAs a prolonged heatwave and drought grip several countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF is sounding the alarm on the dire situation faced by…

The continuing violence came despite an immediate ceasefire call for the remainder of Ramadan from the Security Council on Monday, prompting urgent appeals from UN aid agencies for the resolution to be respected immediately, to prevent…

A new CDC study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) shows that flu vaccination protected children against serious flu illness even when they were infected with a flu virus that was antigenically different from the…

1. IntroductionSeveral governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and relevant stakeholders have made concerted efforts to understand the fertility dynamics in Africa. This was the reason for the seminar on reproductive change…

Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience. Developing control over the shape of the 26 letters of the alphabet ultimately unlocks the ability to…

What are toxic environmental agents? These are harmful substances (chemicals, metals, pollutants) found in water, air, soil, foods, and consumer products. You may or may not know that you have been exposed. These…

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(4), 390; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21040390 (registering DOI) Submission received: 22…

Wins for kids Spectator sports are good for children – good for creating children, that is – according to data in a study by Gwinyai Masukume at University College Dublin, Ireland, and his colleagues. That data…

Children, Vol. 11, Pages 382: Risk Factors Leading to Overnight Stays in Pediatric Surgical Outpatients Children doi: 10.3390/children11040382 Authors: Marko Bašković Martina Markanović Sanja Ivanović Zrinka Boričević Sandra…

This is being compounded by an increase in child and forced marriage, and the recruitment of boys by combatants in the continuing war between rival generals that erupted nearly a year ago. All this is happening against the backdrop of…

Today, CDC is releasing two new reports in MMWR that provide important insights on the health and well-being of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first report looked at pediatric emergency department visits. The…

As parents we don’t like or want to see our children struggling. But worries, fears and anxieties are a natural part of life, and we have to understand that children go through these processes just like adults do. But as parents and…

As parents we don’t like or want to see our children struggling. But worries, fears and anxieties are a natural part of life, and we have to understand that children go through these processes just like adults do. But as parents and…

The Healthy Early Years (HEY) program aims to improve the health and development of children and their families, particularly those living in situations of increased vulnerability. March 21, 2024 | Ottawa, Ontario | Public Health…

Research by Bethany Kotlar, PhD ’24, follows children born to incarcerated mothers for the first three years of their lives March 20, 2024 – Bethany Kotlar founded the nonprofit Motherhood Beyond Bars after learning about the…

All together the findings presented here suggest that in the course of simple obesity in children, systemic inflammatory reactions may be rather limited. It was reflected here by decline in leukocyte MMP2 expression, decreased serum MMP2…

Still, it wasn’t until 1986 that the federal government banned the installation of lead pipes in public water systems and residential plumbing. In Chicago, lead water pipes were mandated until that year, and there are still an…

While ceasefire talks failed to end the five-month-long conflict that has killed nearly 32,000 Palestinians – most of them women and children – the goal of some youngsters living in the makeshift camp was simple.The children of Deir…

van Loon et al., 2011 SNAP (Stop Now and Plan); a 14-week combined group-based parent management training and group-based child-focused CBT intervention. Longitudinal.Children aged 6–12 and their mothers. Children included lived with…

Since the conflict erupted in April 2023, pitting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the CRC – an independent body ensuring children’s rights and protections worldwide – has documented a litany of…

Today, following a public health reassessment, the CDC Director is terminating with respect to unaccompanied noncitizen children an Order under Title 42 suspending the right to introduce certain persons into the United States. In effect,…

Today, following a public health reassessment, the CDC Director is terminating with respect to unaccompanied noncitizen children an Order under Title 42 suspending the right to introduce certain persons into the United States. In effect,…

1. IntroductionApproximately 240 million children and adolescents (young people) have a disability worldwide and 7% of them have mobility limitations . Mobility limitations restrict participation in activities promoting health, global…

March 18, 2024 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, today provided an update on the work of the…

1. IntroductionVaccines stand among the most effective and secure interventions for the primary prevention of numerous infectious diseases. As is widely acknowledged, the introduction of vaccines has drastically reduced the likelihood…

Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar for more talks with mediators after Hamas presented a new truce proposal.The main United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza has said that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north…