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Families and children ask Congress to prioritize children’s health

neurology and child and adolescent psychiatry. We hope this week, as children and families descend on Washington to speak to members of Congress and share their personal health care stories, our lawma... read more

Children's Hospitals' Patient Families to Congress: Prioritize Children's Health and Pass Bipartisan Solutions for Kids

to speak to the importance of prioritizing children's health. The event enables patient families to meet with members of Congress on issues that directly affect their children's care. Specifically, th... read more

What a governor, insurance regulator, and consumer advocate want Congress to do about Obamacare

For Korbulic, that means subsidizing health ... that Congress immediately prioritize action against the Texas lawsuit. The ACA has meant the difference between life or death for her family ... read more

Number of children without health insurance increases, including in Arkansas (UPDATES)

Nationwide, an estimated 3.9 million children were without health insurance in 2017 ... and the histrionics from the GOP Congress have created something like the reverse — "an 'unwelcome mat' effect w... read more

Guest column: Now is time to boost paid family leave, and these Louisiana representatives can help

A national paid leave policy is good for families. Studies show that paid-leave programs can substantially reduce infant mortality rates and better a child's overall health ... ask that paid leave be ... read more

Want to help new families? Start by supporting mothers’ mental health

But that felt hollow and foreign, so instead I broke the tension by saying, “Ask me on a day when ... a guide to prioritizing mom’s health and wellbeing during pregnancy and postpartum. read more

Violated: How the Indian Health Service betrays patient trust and treaties in the Great Plains

A perfect storm of state and federal policy failures, underfunding, geographic remoteness and extreme poverty on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations create unique health care challenges IHS ... read more

Flying with children: A survival guide for parents and fellow passengers

Family travelers ... to give their child the candy or book. Breastfeeding: Drop your attitude toward breastfeeding in public, advises Katie Foss, author of “Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflict... read more

How American Politicians Abandoned Family Values for Tax Cuts and Debt Relief

Republicans tout family values and then prioritize tax ... investment in American children. It won’t get better any time soon and American parents will, as such, remain singularly put upon — beset by ... read more

Guns kill more U.S. kids than cancer. This emergency physician aims to prevent those firearm deaths

She sent Cunningham's two older siblings to live with a safely distant foster family. And she bought a handgun ... With $4.9 million from NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Healt... read more

Children’s Insurance, Other Health Programs Funded — For Now — In Bill

“By failing to extend long-term funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Congress falls far short of the reassurance and relief families deserve ... value="/news/childrens-insurance-other- ... read more

2018 In Review: 10 Political Decisions That Hurt and Helped Kids

For instance, the Children ... and hurt — families this year. Children’s Health Insurance Program Survives After a lengthy re-negotiation process in which literally millions of kids access to health c... read more