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As vaccine hesitancy increases around the country, some parents are choosing to delay routine shots for their children rather than skip them altogether. But that’s a perilous decision that could jeopardize the health of infants, weaken protection against debilitating diseases and lead to outbreaks, medical experts say. Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the country, a trend professionals widely attribute …

Delaying your child’s shots? Here’s why professionals say it’s a bad idea.  The Washington Post Most Americans Favor MMR Vaccine Requirement for Public School  Annenberg School for Communication New KFF-Washington Post survey explores parents’ trust in, and confusion about, childhood vaccines as the Trump administration revamps federal policies  Genetic Literacy Project One in six US parents rejecting standard vaccine schedule: poll  Black Hills Pioneer …

Deeply troubled parents spoke to senators Tuesday, sounding alarms about chatbot harms after kids became addicted to companion bots that encouraged self-harm, suicide, and violence. While the hearing was focused on documenting the most urgent child-safety concerns with chatbots, parents’ testimony serves as perhaps the most thorough guidance yet on warning signs for other families, as many popular companion bots …

After a month with no H5N1 avian flu detections in dairy cattle, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today reported a positive test involving a herd from Texas, raising the nation’s total since early 2024 to 1,079 infected herds in 17 states. The detection is Texas’s first since May. Also, APHIS reported another …

In a bizarre and widely criticised incident caught on camera, a man swiped a signed hat by tennis star Kamil Majchrzak from a child. The man who snatched the hat has now been identified as Polish millionaire and CEO Piotr Szczerek who is facing massive backlash on social media. In the video going viral online, Szczerek can be seen snatching …

In a study published July 18 in the journal Science Advances, Wang and her co-authors came up with a partial answer. They analyzed a dataset of 58,007 women and their children and concluded that, in some cases, a child’s sex correlates with the mother’s age. Women who had their first child at age 29 or older were more likely to …

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers have reanalyzed the remains of a 140,000-year-old child, and the findings suggest that the child could have been a hybrid between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. This revelation challenges long-held assumptions about early human evolution and may provide new insights into the …

The child’s skull has a mix of features that appear to align with both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. (Image credit: Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University) One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found …