Children's Health

Juul announced it will suspend sales of all non-tobacco, non menthol-based flavors of its e-cigarette products.

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Juul Suspends Sales of Flavored Vapes And Signs Settlement To Stop Marketing To Youth

6:34pm October 17, 2019

by Allison Aubrey

Flavored e-cigarettes have hooked millions of teens to nicotine. Now, Juul says it will suspend sales of many flavors. Some call the move too little, too late.

In a growing number of low- and middle-income countries, at least 10% of children and teens are overweight.

Childhood Obesity Is Rising 'Shockingly Fast' — Even In Poor Countries

6:15pm October 17, 2019

by Tim McDonnell

A comprehensive new report from UNICEF calls attention to the surge in obesity in developing countries — even as they're dealing with children who are undernourished.

The University of Iowa is working to include teens on the autism spectrum in its programs for gifted students.

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Gifted Students With Autism Find An Intellectual Oasis In Iowa

7:08pm October 16, 2019

by Jon Hamilton

A center at the University of Iowa is making sure that its programs for gifted teens include those with autism spectrum disorders.

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Doctors Faced With Tough Decisions Due To Shortage Of Drug Used To Treat Cancer

4:26pm October 16, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. Yoram Unguru, a hematologist and oncologist in Baltimore, about a shortage of vincristine, a drug used to treat childhood cancer.

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Alex, at 4 years and 11 months old, throws a toy football.

A Boy's Mysterious Illness Leads His Family On A Diagnostic Odyssey

1:07pm October 16, 2019

by Richard Harris

Alex Yiu was born a seemingly healthy baby. But by age 2, his muscle control and speech were deteriorating. His baffling condition took a decade to diagnose. The reanalysis of a DNA test was the key.

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In Hamburg, Germany, estimated life expectancy in the city's poorer neighborhoods still trails wealthier neighborhoods by 13 years.

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Poor People Are Still Sicker Than The Rich In Germany, Despite Universal Health Care

12:21pm October 16, 2019

by Shefali Luthra

Even with generous health coverage, sizable health disparities persist between Hamburg's wealthier and poorer neighborhoods. Crowding, poor air quality and fewer physicians plague poorer areas.

U.S. teens' use of e-cigarettes has doubled since 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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High School Vape Culture Can Be Almost As Hard To Shake As Addiction, Teens Say

5:19pm October 14, 2019

by Elly Yu

One in 4 high school seniors say they have vaped in the past month. And for heavy users, scary headlines about serious illness and death are no match for nicotine addiction and peer pressure.

President Trump talked to seniors about health care in central Florida in early October. "We eliminated Obamacare's horrible, horrible, very expensive and very unfair, unpopular individual mandate," Trump told the crowd.

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Trump Is Trying Hard To Thwart Obamacare. How's That Going?

4:30pm October 14, 2019

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Though polls show Affordable Care Act protections remain popular in the U.S., President Trump still threatens to drastically change the law if he can't repeal it. Here are five changes he's made.

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Jeri Seidman and her daughter Hannah lounge at their home in Charlottesville, Va. Hannah is a patient in a genetic risk study about Type 1 diabetes.

Health & Safety

Researchers Try A Genetic Diabetes Test To Prevent Emergency Hospitalizations

5:35am October 14, 2019

by Richard Harris

Will a genetic test for Type 1 diabetes risk be valuable to parents, despite its shortcomings? Now many parents don't know their kids have this condition until they end up in the hospital.

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A lighter moment on a serious day: the presentation of a Global Girls' Bill of Rights at the U.N. Left to right: Six of the young women who helped draft the document: Faith Nwando, 17; Djellza Pulatani, 17; Olivia Lombardo, 16; Angelica Morales, 21; Kanch

6 Young Women Went To The U.N. With A Bill Of Rights For Girls

4:40pm October 11, 2019

by Diane Cole

The bill addresses education, sexual violence and other key issues. "Many girls in my country don't even know what their rights are," says Kanchan Amatya of Nepal.