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News Articles: Children's Health

Andrea Mills leads a group of educators from the St. Luke School in Columbus through the Love Like Lexi Project curriculum during a training session for teachers in 2021. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com

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  • News

On 6th anniversary of daughter’s suicide, mom invites Columbus area to prevention event

On the sixth anniversary of her teenage daughter Lexi Webb’s death by suicide, Andrea Mills of Smiths Station and a group of supporters will conduct a free community event they hope will reach more people with the message they’ve been spreading.

February 04, 2025
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By:
  • Mark Rice
Sarah Wildman and Orli, photographed in early summer 2021. Orli was finishing a second round of chemotherapy after her liver cancer had metastasized when she was asked to participate in a project chronicling the beauty of baldness.

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  • Children's Health

'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Energy drinks, which have become very popular with kids and adolescents, often contain added sugars and large amounts of caffeine.

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  • Children's Health

As drinks targeting kids have soared, there's new guidance on what's healthy

As highly caffeinated energy drinks have become popular with kids, a coalition of health organizations has new guidelines on what's a healthy beverage. Some of the advice may surprise parents.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House last week.

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  • Politics

Trump signs an order restricting gender-affirming care for minors

President Trump signed an executive order seeking to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Cammie Wolf Rice holds up a photo of her and her son, Christopher Wolf, who died by opioid overdose in 2016.

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  • Children's Health

Medication for opioid use disorder is available via telehealth. One Georgia mom hopes it saves lives

Buprenorphine is the only medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat opioid use disorder in adolescents ages 16 and up.

January 23, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Jen Fisher’s son Raleigh lives with a congenital heart condition, which has left him with a weakened immune system. Raleigh has received all the recommended vaccines for a child his age, but his mother still worries about potential exposures given faltering vaccination rates in Tennessee. Even a weakened form of a virus could send him to the emergency room.(Sarah Jones Portraits)

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  • Children's Health

Childhood vaccination rates, a rare health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping

Advocates, doctors, public health officials, and researchers worry public health bright spots in some states are fading: Many states have recently reported an increase in people opting out of vaccines for their kids as Americans’ views shift.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Chang and
  • Sam Whitehead
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which brought the petition to ban red dye No. 3, wants the FDA to require warning labels on food products containing other synthetic dyes.

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  • Your Health

Beyond red dye No. 3: Here's what parents should know about food colorings

Food companies have two years to get red dye No. 3 out of their products. But other synthetic dyes have also raised concerns, because of behavioral issues in kids. Here's what parents need to consider.

January 18, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy and
  • Allison Aubrey
Red dye 3 is a petroleum based color additive that's been used for decades, to give foods and drinks bright, flashy coloring.

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  • Health

FDA bans the food dye Red No. 3

The food colorant has been linked to behavioral problems in children, including inattention and hyperactivity. California passed a law to ban it last year. It's also linked to cancer in lab rats.

January 15, 2025
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  • Allison Aubrey
A student has his meal during the kick off of President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious free meal program to feed children and pregnant women nationwide — despite critics saying that its required logistics could hurt Indonesia's state finances and economy — at an elementary school in Depok, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

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  • Asia

Indonesia launches free meals program to fight stunting

Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project to feed nearly 90 million children and pregnant women to fight malnutrition and stunting, as critics question whether the program is affordable.

January 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Clockwise, from top left: Laura Forer, Michelle Allette, Domenique Rice, Jen Loga, Dr. Patty Ng and Marise Angibeau-Gray

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  • Health

Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth

Through her work, photographer Nancy Borowick says she hopes to draw awareness to women's stories, educate Americans and destigmatize the conversation that occurs between doctors and patients.

December 11, 2024
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  • Nancy Borowick
A young patient with sickle cell anemia in a hospital bed

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  • Health

Parvovirus B19 on rise in Atlanta could be severe for kids with sickle cell disease

Amid doctors’ calls for protective measures against influenza and COVID this winter, some new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports highlight the need for Atlanta clinicians and residents to pay attention to another respiratory virus on the rise.

December 05, 2024
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By:
  • Allen Siegler
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

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  • Law

Supreme Court seems ready to uphold ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Three Tennessee families—and the Biden administration—are challenging the state's ban.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court heard arguments on the FDA's refusal to approve flavored e-cigarettes over public health concerns.

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  • Law

At Supreme Court, vaping may be frowned upon, but that could change with Trump

The focal point of the case is 2009 law enacted by Congress that gives the Food and Drug Administration a mandate to curb the availability of nicotine products for minors.

December 02, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
A technician at a Chinese pharmaceutical company works on breeding the plant sweet wormwood, used in creating artemisinin, the go-to medicine for killing the malaria parasite.

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  • Global Health

What's going on with the 'magic' drug for malaria?

The anti-malarial drug Artemisinin is highly effective. It's critical for kids, who are especially vulnerable. A new study comes to an alarming conclusion.

November 15, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Mahawat Zakaria Jouma is happy when he gets a chance to play soccer, but mostly he is busy taking care of his siblings, trying to earn money makeing bricks, and going to school.

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  • Global Health

He's 14. He loves soccer. He's the sole caregiver for his little twin brothers

Mahamat Djouma is one of the millions displaced by the civil war in Sudan. He is part of an especially vulnerable group — unaccompanied minors. Here is his story.

November 15, 2024
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  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
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