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Past articles by Ariana Eunjung:
‘Our state is at war with our family’: Clergy with trans kids fight back
They say their children’s lives and religious liberty are threatened by bills proposed in Missouri and elsewhere. → Read More
What you need to know about the new childhood obesity guidelines
Aggressive treatment, including medication for kids as young as 12, and surgery for those as young as 13, is now recommended. → Read More
Aggressive treatment guidelines for childhood obesity getting backlash
But experts say that the old approach of “watchful waiting” often failed and that many children developed lifelong health issues. → Read More
How a viral siege is making some people sick for weeks, even months
It’s like ‘a big bomb of viruses went off,' says pediatrician treating kids with flu, RSV, strep and covid → Read More
Repeat coronavirus infections can still be dangerous, study suggests
The research found that patients with reinfections tended to have more complications in organ systems and a greater chance of being diagnosed with long covid. → Read More
FDA wants to yank pregnancy drug. Firm argues Black women will suffer.
With no alternative treatments, some worry the move could deepen maternal and infant health inequities. → Read More
Physicians face confusion and fear in post-Roe world
Doctors worry gray areas in new abortion bans force a choice between breaking their oath and breaking the law. → Read More
Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests
Veterans Affairs analyzed records from nearly 34,000 people in the United States who experienced breakthrough infections. → Read More
Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency
Inside a global hunt to identify and stop mutations that might lead to more lethal variants. → Read More
She went to one doctor, then another and another
Plagued by mysterious symptoms and bouncing among doctors, 28-year-old wonders, "Is this going to be the rest of my life?" → Read More
How covid brain fog may overlap with ‘chemo brain’ and Alzheimer’s
Researchers say the brain inflammation in long covid is similar to that in cancer patients. → Read More
Five months post-covid, Nicole Murphy’s heart rate is still doing strange things
The prevalence of such symptoms has experts projecting a ‘tidal wave’ of cardiovascular cases related directly and indirectly to the coronavirus. → Read More
Chris Crouch was anti-vaccine. Now his pregnant wife had covid, and he faced a terrible choice.
‘You are not going to die,’ he said, making a vow he wasn’t sure he could keep. → Read More
America’s split-screen pandemic: Many families resume their lives even as hospitals are overwhelmed
Should we move on? Stay home til omicron wanes? Dueling realities characterize the 23rd month of a crisis that people expected would long be over. → Read More
Medical advances saving premature babies pose thorny issues for abortion rights advocates
Babies are surviving earlier in pregnancy than ever before, complicating the debate over fetal viability at issue in the Mississippi abortion case now before the high court. → Read More
‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents
New study estimates 140,000 children have experienced the death of a primary caregiver due to covid or other causes in excess of what might be expected in a typical year. → Read More
Parenting a child under 12 in the age of delta: ‘It’s like a fire alarm every day’
Parenting a child under 12 can be maddening and scary during normal times, but the delta variant — and an increase in pediatric covid cases — has taken things to a new level. → Read More
A Calif. elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for delta.
The Marin County, Calif. outbreak, detailed in a new CDC report, underscores the risks for unvaccinated children under 12 as delta rampages across the country. → Read More
Pediatricians besieged by parents seeking coronavirus shots for kids under 12
Jason Goldstein has every incentive to get his youngest child vaccinated. The 11-year-old has health issues that could make covid-19 particularly dangerous... → Read More
‘This is real’: Fear and hope in an Arkansas pediatric ICU
As the delta variant surges, some experts worry we may be entering the most dangerous moment in the pandemic for children. → Read More