"This is a public health crisis for children. And it demands action," Long Covid Families said in its promotion of the ...

The source of Kennedy’s statistical claim — that chronic disease in U.S. children increased from 6% during his uncle’s presidency to 60% today — is unclear.

Yet some 40 percent of children also have a chronic health condition, according to the National Survey of Children’s Health. An earlier study found the figure was higher among adolescents, and ...

The "chronic disease crisis" in children is described in the report as growing rates of a number of issues including childhood obesity, diabetes, autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fingered four potential causes of childhood chronic disease in a bombshell report released Thursday — the first step in the Trump ...

In 2022, one in 31 children were diagnosed with autism by age 8 in the U.S., an uptick from one in 36 children in 2020, according to a report released by the CDC on April 15.

More information: Jason H. Greenberg et al, Biomarker Panels for Discriminating Risk of CKD Progression in Children, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2025). DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000602 ...

Children between 2-17 living in a low-income ZIP code, were more likely to have a preventable hospitalization for asthma.

People were thinner and had lower rates of chronic disease, he recalls. Fewer children had autism, allergies or autoimmune diseases.

The research, led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Mucosal Immunology, has found suppurative lung disease and wheezing have the same inflammatory profiles despite ...

The AAP guidance stated that 14.4 million American children live with obesity. Connecticut Department of Public Health statistics report that 16.8% of Connecticut children live with obesity.