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As the fall respiratory season approaches and differing recommendations for children’s COVID-19 and flu shots cause confusion, who should be getting vaccinated to protect against illness? Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, voted to change recommendations for the COVID-19 vaccine.  The ACIP’s recommendations …

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. In the 1940s, the child psychiatrist Leo Kanner started studying the causes of autism. Mostly, he blamed parents. They raised the kids in what he called “emotional refrigerators.” A Time magazine piece on Kanner’s theories was titled “Frosted Children,” …

To understand why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking the hepatitis B vaccine, look to the rhetoric coming from his loudest fans in the anti-vaccine movement. According to the misnamed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, the only women who get hepatitis B are filthy degenerates. Jillian Michaels, the former reality TV star-turned right-wing demagogue, …

“It Stays With You”: People Who Grew Up Poor Are Sharing Things That The Rich Kids Will Never Understand  BuzzFeedView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Around half a million Amazon products have been recalled over numerous safety fears, including suffocation, injury and fire hazards. Products such as baby loungers, portable power banks and misting fans are among the recalled items sold by the online marketplace and and other retailers. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that five different items sold through Amazon were recently …

Growing up boomer meant growing up in a world with fewer safety nets and far less cushioning. There were no helicopter parents hovering over every decision. There were no constant online reminders of how special or unique you were. Instead, there were simple, straightforward statements that encouraged independence, grit, and a healthy dose of perspective. Some of these phrases might …

On September 16, 2025, Minecraft unveiled Reed Smart: AI Detective, an innovative educational game that empowers 8-18-year-olds to navigate the complexities of AI misinformation while solving engaging, film noir-inspired cases—instilling vital information literacy skills for the digital age. Reed Smart: AI Detective is an interactive adventure game fashioned after film noir detective stories, where the player must assist detective Reed …

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, a severe post-infectious complication of SARS-CoV-2 emerged globally called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), affecting mostly previously healthy children of school age. The great majority of these children were admitted to the intensive care unit, not due to pneumonia, but because of life-threatening cardiovascular involvement including myocarditis. CDC investigators were tracking MIS-C closely in …

Trump admin’s basis for deporting Guatemalan kids ‘crumbled like a house of cards,’ judge rules  Politico Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deporting hundreds of Guatemalan minors  Fox News Federal judge blocks US from expelling Guatemalan minors  CNN Trump-Appointed Judge Says Admin Argument ‘Crumbed Like a House of Cards’  Newsweek Federal judge issues new block on deportations of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors  The Hill Source link

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has sounded the alarm on what many recent graduates already know—getting a job right out of college is really hard right now. Speaking at his regular press conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Powell called it “an interesting labor market.” He said people “kids coming out of college and younger people, minorities, are …