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News Articles: Children's Health

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes offering medical explanations in clear, everyday language from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities. Her video company, Grapevine Health, is built on that idea — and some health insurers are buying in.

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  • Health

'Dr. Lisa on the Street' busts health myths and empowers patients

She's seen what happens when people don't trust or understand their doctor. Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick founded 'Grapevine Health' to get solid information out, especially to Black and Latinx patients.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Cocoa contains compounds called flavanols, which have been shown to improve blood flow and lower blood pressure.

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  • Health

Is chocolate good for your heart? Finally the FDA has an answer – kind of

For years, chocolate-lovers have pointed to studies suggesting compounds in cocoa may be good for heart health. But some of the recent evidence comes from flavanol-rich cocoa, not from candy bars

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
Starting May 11 most people will have to pay for those at-home test kits for COVID-19, as the federal government's declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency officially ends.

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  • Health

COVID test kits, treatments and vaccines won't be free to many consumers much longer

Insurers, employers, taxpayers and other consumers will all be affected as drugmakers move these products to the commercial market in May. How much you'll pay depends on your health insurance.

February 08, 2023
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By:
  • Julie Appleby
First graders from The Friends School of Atlanta share their hopes for the world.

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  • Global Health

We asked for wishes, you answered: Send leaders into space, free electricity, dignity

Send leaders into space for perspective, tap solar power to offer electricity for all, make "dignity" a priority — those are some of the wishes readers have for 2023.

February 05, 2023
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By:
  • Carmen Drahl,
  • Gisele Grayson,
  • and 1 more
Gas utilities and cooking stove manufacturers knew for decades that burners could be made that emit less pollution in homes, but they chose not to. That may may be about to change.

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  • Climate

Gas stove makers have a pollution solution. They're just not using it

Gas utilities and cooking stove manufacturers knew for decades that burners could be made that emit less pollution in homes, but they chose not to. That may may be about to change.

February 04, 2023
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Each year, RSV infections send up to 80,000 kids under 5 to the hospital for emergency treatment. A new antibody treatment could protect the youngest kids — newborns and up infants up to 2 years old.

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  • Health

A single-shot treatment to protect infants from RSV may be coming soon

The illness sends tens of thousands of babies to the hospital each year. If approved, the new injection would be the first broadly available prevention tool.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Tarryn Mento
As soda consumption has dropped in the West, companies are making an effort to woo new customers in other places. This Coke bottle ad is in Mozambique.

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  • Global Health

Junk food companies say they're trying to do good. A new book raises doubts

As the marketing of soda and fast food ramps up around the world, the companies involved forge partnerships to help the poor. The new book 'Junk Food Politics' casts a critical eye at their efforts.

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Fifth-graders wearing face masks sit at proper social distancing during a music class at the Milton Elementary School in Rye, N.Y., May 18, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to data shared with The Associated Press.

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  • Children's Health

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among children, but is still rare

Children ages 19 and under died from COVID-19 at a rate at 1 per 100,000, making it rare, but still a leading cause of death among that age group.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
At Wednesday’s joint Senate Health, Human Services, Children, & Families Committee meeting, Aubrey Brannen, from the Department of Family & Children Services, pleaded for Senators' help with the "hoteling" issue around the state.

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  • Health

Georgia foster care officials blame ‘hoteling’ problem on health care shortfalls

A legislative hearing about the “hoteling” of foster children in Georgia zeroed in the problems children in state custody face in getting health care.  

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine

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  • Health

Your kids are adorable germ vectors. Here's how often they get your household sick

After months of COVID, flu and RSV infections, parents of little kids are kinda losing it. But the data shows kids have always brought home waves of respiratory illness.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
GPB  NPR

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  • Children's Health

If it feels like your kid has been sick for months — here's some scientific comfort

With COVID, RSV, the flu and other bugs circulating, the last few months have been an endless cycle of illness for many families with young kids. While miserable, it's also normal in the grand scheme.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Maria Godoy

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  • Health

To reignite the joy of childhood, learn to live on 'toddler time'

The days might seem long, but the years go by quickly, friends warned when my son was born. I wanted to savor each precious memory, but how? Living on "toddler time," showed me the way.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
New guidance calls for lower lead levels in food for babies and children under 2. Lead exposure can be harmful to developing brains.

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  • Health

The FDA proposes new targets to limit lead in baby food

Toxic metal can be harmful to developing brains. New lead targets are part of a broad FDA imitative to reduce children's exposure to the lowest levels possible.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey and
  • Jane Greenhalgh
Northside Hospital Atlanta

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  • Health

Northside Atlanta is first hospital in the U.S. with top-tier maternal care designation

The Maternal Levels of Care program from the Joint Commission designates facilities by available services for moms and babies, expanding a public health health program meant to improve perinatal outcomes. 

January 19, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
With COVID, flu and cold viruses spreading widely this winter, researchers looked into whether you can get infected with more than one at once.

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  • Health

Can you get COVID and the flu at the same time?

And what about a cold or RSV? With all the illness spreading, it's virus soup out there these days. Some people feel so sick they're wondering if they're fighting more than one germ at once.

January 18, 2023
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By:
  • Rob Stein
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