Children's Health

DELRAY, FL - MAY 23, 2022: (L-R) Alexandra Iriarte, Elizabeth George, Janaya Stephens, Paris Jackson, Mario Guillaume and Keanna Tyson during a group session in their grief support group also knows as Steve's Club held during school hours at Atlantic High

Health & Safety

Losing a parent can derail teens' lives. A high school grief club aims to help

8:37am July 24, 2022

by Rhitu Chatterjee

After finding she had ten bereaved kids in her class, one Florida teacher created a teen grief group. It's a place where kids can support each other and feel they're not alone.

Health & Safety

There is still a baby formula shortage

8:34am July 24, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe speaks to food policy reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich about the latest on the baby formula shortage in the U.S. and when caregivers might get some relief.

From left to right: Alice Paredes, Sriya Chippalthurty, Liliana Talino and Natalia Perez Morales are Girl Up "teen advisers" who give up their hobbies to help disadvantaged girls and women in their communities.

What these teen girls do — and don't — have time for might surprise and inspire you

7:00am July 23, 2022

by Max Barnhart

On top of schoolwork and chores, these four Girl Up "teen advisers" sometimes give up their favorite hobbies to try and "save the world." They talk about their activism — and their role models.

An image provided by the Environmental Protection Agency shows examples of a lead pipe, left, a corroded steel pipe, center, and a lead pipe treated with protective orthophosphate. The EPA is only now requiring water systems to take stock of their lead pi

'Time bomb' lead pipes will be removed. But first water utilities have to find them

5:01am July 20, 2022

by Allison Kite

Health experts warn problems with these "underground poisonous straws" can strike suddenly, and states are getting cash to replace them. But no one knows how many lines exist or where they are.

Ana Elsy Ramirez Diaz holds her baby as he is seen by Dr. Margaret-Anne Fernandez during a checkup visit at INOVA Cares Clinic for Children in Falls Church, Va. A portion of the clinic's patients are insured through the Children's Health Insurance Program

Millions of kids qualify for Medicaid. Biden funds outreach to boost enrollment

1:05pm July 19, 2022

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

More than half of uninsured kids qualify for free coverage but don't know it. The government has released $49 million to get the word out, especially as the end of the COVID health emergency looms.

Global vaccination coverage continued to plunge in 2021, according to a new report

5:28pm July 15, 2022

by Tekella Foster

A report from WHO and UNICEF states that last year, 25 million children missed out on one or more "lifesaving vaccines" — for diseases like tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, polio and yellow fever.

A pediatric neurosurgeon reflects on his intense job, and the post-Roe landscape

5:44pm July 06, 2022

by Dave Davies

Jay Wellons has operated on children's brains and spinal cords. He knows the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a child's life. His memoir is All That Moves Us.

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Packages of Juul mint-flavored e-cigarettes are displayed at a smoke shop in 2019.

The FDA orders Juul to pull all of its vaping products from the U.S. market

1:21pm June 23, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The company "will finally be held accountable for creating the youth vaping epidemic," the advocacy group Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes told NPR. Juul said it plans to fight the decision.

Fourth-grader Lucy Kramer (foreground) does schoolwork at her home, as her mother, Daisley, helps her younger sister, Meg, who is in kindergarten, in 2020 in San Anselmo, Calif.

Raising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely, exhausting and expensive

12:41pm June 22, 2022

by Terry Gross

In her book, author Angela Garbes makes the case that the work of raising children has always been undervalued and undercompensated in the U.S. Then came the pandemic, and everything got harder.

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Brit Oliphant connected with her fourth-grade student, Seth Snyder through skateboarding. Brit was shocked to find out Seth was so passionate about skating but didn't have a skateboard of his own. She started an organization, Boards 4 Buddies, to change t

A teacher in Hawaii is rehoming surfboards and skateboards to underprivileged kids

5:00am June 21, 2022

by Dustin Jones

A schoolteacher in Hawaii connected with a student through skateboarding, only to find out he couldn't afford a board of his own. She started a grassroots organization to fix that.