AP Health - Children's Health

An Idaho hospital is reporting the state’s first case of a pediatric inflammatory illness associated with the coronavirus

As states around the country require visitors from areas with high rates of coronavirus infections to quarantine upon arrival, children taking end-of-summer vacations to hot spots are facing the possibility of being forced to skip the start of in-person learning at their schools

CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — Local health experts shared that parents can help their kids through healthy routines and habits as children, adolescents and teens find their emotional or mental health wors...

Philadelphia has stopped sending local children to facilities operated by a nonprofit health organization where at least 41 intellectually disabled children have reported sexual assaults over the past quarter-century

Philadelphia has stopped sending local children to facilities operated by a nonprofit health organization where at least 41 intellectually disabled children have reported sexual assaults over the past quarter-century

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 13, 2020--The United Health Foundation has donated $750,000 to the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia to improve access to health care and health outcom...

The United Nations estimates that 43% of schools around the world don’t have access to water and soap for basic hand-washing

Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers:___Aug. 11The Daily Citizen-News on Gov. Brian Kemp's stance on local control:Imagine our surprise when we learned that Gov. Brian Kemp said on Monday that it...

Two new sobering government reports show racial disparities in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic extend to children

Georgia health officials say a 7-year-old boy with COVID-19 is the youngest known person to die in the state since the pandemic began