Tag: Children and Childhood
F.D.A. Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer Covid Vaccines for Youngest Children
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration authorized both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines for the nation’s…
Parents Anxious to Vaccinate Young Children Describe an Agonizing Wait
Tyfanee Pratt’s son Julian was born in November 2019 in Burlington, N.J. Before long, Ms. Pratt was ready…
Mother Charged With Manslaughter After 2-Year-Old Fatally Shoots Father
A Florida woman was charged with manslaughter on Monday after her 2-year-old boy found a gun in their…
It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.
It was only in adulthood, after defecting to Canada, that I began to find peace and realize my…
Liviah’s New Liver: A Family Grapples With a Girl’s Puzzling Hepatitis
It was three days before Christmas, and Elizabeth Widders was perched in her upstairs bathroom, fastening red and…
8 of the Best Bike Trails in the U.S.
In the early 20th century, the patchwork of the United States was quilted together by almost 300,000 miles…
Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why.
Still, she added, many girls who develop early are not overweight.“Obesity can’t explain all of this,” Dr. Shaw…
A Family Measures Milestones on an Alaskan Cycling Trip
I didn’t understand then how much would change, or how quickly. Soon after, the park road was closed…
F.D.A. and Abbott Reach Agreement on Baby Formula to Try to Ease Shortage
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories on the steps needed to…
In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly
It’s no biggie for horror movie villains to be rabid grannies or killer Santas. But what kind of…
Moderna Vaccine Provokes Strong Immune Response in Children 6 to 11
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine elicits a strong immune response in children aged 6 to 11, researchers reported on Wednesday…
Moonbug’s ‘CoComelon’ Leaves Nothing to Chance
Is that so terrible? Jordy Kaufman, who runs the Babylab research facility at Swinburne University of Technology in…