Children's Health

Lirios Pediatrics is believed to be the only clinic in the state that exclusively serves uninsured children — for free.

Camp Indigo is a normal day camp. The campers just happen to be transgender and nonbinary.

Texas Children's Hospital North Austin has opened its doors, becoming the second hospital for children to open in North Austin in the past year.

In all of the school districts chosen for the pilot, at least 70% of students qualify for free and reduced lunch. Several Central Texas districts are participating, including Del Valle ISD, Lockhart ISD and San Marcos CISD.

Dell Children's Medical Center North opened to patients on Thursday, bringing emergency services and specialty care to a rapidly growing area in Central Texas.

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."