Children's Health

The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning that drug dealers are marketing rainbow-colored fentanyl to kids. Many drug experts say that's likely not happening.

Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds.

Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance, the suit claims.

Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine, or TCHATT, was created in response to an increasing number of children who are unable to access mental health services, mostly due to a low number of providers.

"COVID is among the leading causes of death for children in this age group [6 months to 5 years old]," Austin-Travis County health authority's told KUT. "So it's really important that we protect our children. And now we have a way to do that."

NPR talks to Claire Hannan, who has helped navigate vaccine rollouts in all 50 states, about some of the challenges involved in quickly getting shots out to millions of young kids.

CDC advisers are recommending the use of two separate COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, paving the way for vaccine rollout as early as next week.

"My own historically Republican mother told me she looked up her senators and called them for the first time in her life," Liz Hanks, who leads the Texas chapter of Moms Demand Action, told NPR.

The massacre in Uvalde, Texas, was yet another grim reminder that in the U.S., children are more likely to die from gun violence than in any other wealthy nation. And it's getting worse.

Some families no longer see a future here and are moving to states with strong civil rights protections for trans people.