AP Health - Children's Health

A federal advisory committee has recommended that all U.S. adults younger than 60 be vaccinated against hepatitis B

Vaccinations finally are available to U.S. children as young as 5, to the relief of many parents

Schoolchildren take the spotlight this week as the U.S. enters a new phase in COVID-19 vaccination aimed at curbing deaths, hospitalizations and more than a year of disrupted education

US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 5

An influential advisory panel is recommending Pfizer's kid-size COVID-19 vaccine for all children ages 5 to 11

An influential U.S. advisory panel is recommending that all children ages 5 to 11 should get Pfizer’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine

A government advisory panel is discussing which schoolchildren should get Pfizer's pediatric COVID-19 vaccine

In the wake of the most devastating public-health emergency in a century and the resulting economic uncertainty, Americans provided more charitable dollars to United Way Worldwide than any other nonprofit focused on direct aid, followed by the Salvation Army and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, according to new rankings by the Chronicle of Philanthropy

Pfizer beat third-quarter expectations and raised its 2021 forecast again even as sales of its top product, the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, slipped in the U.S. Soaring international sales of the preventive shots helped pushed total Comirnaty revenue close to $13 billion in the quarter, and the drugmaker said Tuesday that it now expects to book about $36 billion in sales from the vaccine this year

The White House says the Biden administration is already assembling and shipping millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11