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Sometimes When School Is Out, So Is The Food
Kids line up for a free summer meal through a Chico Unified School District program. (Photo: Patrice Chamberlain) To understand some of the powerful hunger issues in our state, go no further than the...
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Children’s Advocates Divided on Healthy Families Transition
By Emily Bazar, CHCF Center for Health Reporting (David Mason: Flickr) As the Legislature debated — and ultimately approved –- a budget-cutting plan to transfer nearly 900,000 California children on...
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Children’s Well-Being Low in California
New report shows California ranks 41st in the nation (JasonHickey: Flickr) Together with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Oakland-based nonprofit Children Now released their 2012 report on children’s...
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Lead in Eye Cosmetic — and Other Kinds of Makeup
By Joanna Lin, California Watch A girl wears kohl around her eyes. Similar products are known in other languages as tiro and surma. (Photo: New York City Health Department) After a Massachusetts doctor...
View ArticleHispanic Children Focus of New Study on Developmental Delay and Autism
Hispanic children have had a lower rate of autism than other children — although their cases tend to be more severe. Researchers had wondered — is there something protective about being Hispanic? Or is...
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Is Organic Food More Nutritious Than Conventional? Probably Not.
Organic produce. (Siel Ju: Flickr) As Amy Standen reported this morning for KQED, researchers at Stanford University have combed through hundreds of scientific papers, comparing organically-grown...
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Low-income Parents Brace for End of ‘Healthy Families’
By Mina Kim Maria Garibay worries her daughters won't be able to stay with their current doctors when they switch from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal next year.(Mina Kim: KQED) Next January, the state...
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Children and the Health Care Overhaul: Where is Coverage Best?
Editor’s note: this post was updated to clarify benefits available to children who receive Medi-Cal and benefits available in the new Health Insurance Exchange. By Elaine Korry Pediatrician Porshia...
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Seniors Help Kids CATCH Healthy Habits in San Diego
By Marnette Federis During the physical activity component of CATCH Healthy Habits, kids play active games for 30 minutes. (Photo: Marnette Federis) A novel after-school program in the San Diego area...
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Study: Sugar — Independent of Obesity — Causes Diabetes
For years, doctors have debated sugar’s role in causing diabetes. The prevailing medical opinion has been that eating more sugar means eating more calories, and it’s the resulting weight gain that...
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Schools Struggle to Provide Dental Health Safety Net
Dental disease at the intersection of school performance and health for thousands of California children By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource Today Students learn how to care for their teeth and receive...
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Can Air Pollution Cause Asthma in Kids? How About Autism?
(Getty Images/Thinkstock) We all know air pollution is not great for your health, but two new studies this week stressed just how bad it can be for children, infants and the developing fetus. Exposure...
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Covered California to Sell Children’s Dental Plans Separately
By Julie Small, KPCC (sj_sanders/Flickr) The state’s health insurance marketplace, Covered California, authorized a set of benefits months ago that included dental care for children, but now the...
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CT Scans and Kids: Parents Often Unaware of Risks
Mary Kathryn Lynch stood next to her young son in a Lake Tahoe emergency room. The Oakland resident had rushed her 9-year-old to the hospital after a ski accident left him groggy, curled up in the...
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How TVs Hurt Kids — No, It’s Not the Programming This Time
It’s easy to imagine how this baby could be hurt if the TV toppled over. (Getty Images) As a parent I fret about what TV may be doing to my kids’ minds. Now a study out Monday warns that TVs pose a...
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Yes, Even Pre-Schoolers at Risk of Obesity from Sugary Drinks
The pre-schoolers weren’t necessarily drinking soda. Kool-Aid also is a sugar-sweetened beverage. (Dimmerswitch/Flickr) Adults have been studied; teens have been studied; other school-age children have...
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Kids’ Dental Plans Cost Extra in New Health Marketplace
(emrank/Flickr) By Julie Small, KPCC UPDATE 5:00PM After listening to comments from interested parties ranging from insurance executives to children’s health advocates, the board of Covered California...
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In California, School Anti-Bullying Efforts Falling Short
A new report from the California state auditor faulted both local entities and the state’s oversight in anti-bullying programs. (Photo: Getty Images) By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource Today Just as kids...
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San Francisco’s BabyCenter Reaches Young Mothers in the Developing World
This woman in Bangladesh receives educational text messages about baby care. (Scene from MAMA Global video) Here in the U.S. pregnant women focus, sometimes obsessively, on diet, nutrition and prenatal...
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Short School Lunch Periods Leave Kids Hungry
Students eat lunch in the Oakland High School cafeteria. To get lunch, students in one line enter their ID numbers – used by staff to track free and reduced-price meals – and then receive tickets to...
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