FG Trade/E+/Getty Images Autism diagnoses are becoming more prevalent in the United States. An April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that approximately one in 31 children (approximately 3%) were diagnosed with autism in 2022, up from one in 36 two years prior. The CDC notes this is due not...
Mattel Children living with type 1 diabetes (T1D; previously known as “juvenile diabetes” as it tends to be diagnosed in childhood) and their families face unique medical and social challenges associated with this chronic autoimmune condition. It can be difficult for kids to understand their own condition, much less explain it to their peers. But...
Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images As a mom living in New England, not a warm day has gone by in the past decade or so where I haven’t checked my kids for ticks. Yes, the wee vampires are the bane of my summer existence. They love to hide in the body’s nooks and crannies — in or behind...
Tomas Rodriguez/Corbis/Getty Images If you were a certain kind of kid going through the D.A.R.E. program in the ’90s, you very likely lived a good chunk of your childhood believing you were one peer-pressured joint away from a crack addiction and living on the streets. But even after those sensational fears ultimately ebbed (and for...