Tag: Child and teen health
Younger adolescents get ready to receive COVID-19 vaccine
MISSION, Kan. — Parents, schools and vaccine clinics rushed to begin inoculating younger adolescents Tuesday after U.S. regulators endorsed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children...
1 dead, 6 sickened in Indiana; carbon monoxide suspected
LEXINGTON, Ind. — A woman died and six other people, including three children, received medical treatment after apparently being sickened by carbon monoxide fumes...
Parents excited over prospect of virus shots for children
MISSION, Kan. — After more than a year of fretting over her 13-year son with a rare liver disease, Heather Ousley broke into tears...
Biden aims to vaccinate 70% of American adults by July 4
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden set a new vaccination goal to deliver at least one shot to 70% of adult Americans by July Fourth...
EU drug regulator evaluating Pfizer vaccine for youngsters
AMSTERDAM — The European Union's drug regulator said Monday it has begun evaluating a request by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech to extend approval of...
Hospital seeks new trial to remove toddler from life support
FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas hospital is asking a state appeals court to take steps to overturn a ruling that forced it to...
Pfizer, BioNTech seek COVID vaccine authorization for kids
LONDON — Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have submitted a request to the European drug regulator for the approval of their coronavirus vaccine to be...
California mulls letting adults add parents to health plans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a...
Research on shaken baby syndrome helps free 15-year inmate
SAN FRANCISCO — A man imprisoned for 15 years in the death of his month-old son is free after prosecutors and a judge agreed...
North Carolina won’t pass bill to ban youth trans procedures
RALEIGH, N.C. — The office of North Carolina's Republican Senate leader said on Tuesday the chamber won't advance a controversial bill put forward...
