Violence against children in Haiti increased by nearly 500% last year, according to a United Nations report, ranking the Caribbean nation as dangerous a place for children war-torn Gaza, the ...

Despite progress in some countries — Chad, Nepal and Peru for example — A new report from UNICEF looks at rates of "extreme hunger" among children age 5 and under. Millions of kids around the ...

Colorado families with children are struggling with higher costs since the end of programs meant to ease the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Kids Count Colorado report released ...

The condition is less prevalent among children than adults, but symptoms can disrupt their schoolwork and social lives. By Dana G. Smith and Dani Blum A large analysis published Wednesday in the ...

Woloshin is professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine’s Dartmouth Institute. Kravitz is a distinguished professor at the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine. P.T. Barnum, American ...

Children in residential treatment facilities run by some of the country’s largest behavioral health companies are at risk for sexual abuse, dangerous physical restraints and overmedication, problems ...

Pakistan has emerged as one of the most radical and alarming cases among the Muslim countries in terms of discrimination against non-Muslim children, particularly Hindus and Christians, a report ...

From defining ultra-processed food to revisiting dietary guidelines, the 20-page federal report offers a broad framework for the future of eating in America. The U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

"There's some good news and then there's some bad news," said Helga Fogstad, the director of health for the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Her team helped produce a new report that ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...