An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns, according to new United Nations estimates released on Tuesday – highlighting a worrying ...

Good news, everyone! Fewer children are dying in Arizona! Small, infuriating caveat, though: More children are dying from infectious diseases that vaccines might have prevented. That’s the revelation ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported a significant rise in the number of children dying from influenza, including dangerous and rare variations of the virus. There were 280 ...

Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children, taking more than 3.4 million lives per year, according to the Sepsis Alliance — and 85% of these deaths occur before age 5. Sepsis ...

Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children, taking more than 3.4 million lives per year, according to the Sepsis Alliance — and 85% of these deaths occur before age 5. Sepsis ...

In public health, people often label some topics as "too controversial" to touch and dismiss others as "too political" or "too complicated." But the survival of children in conflict zones should never ...

PORT SUDAN (Feb. 5, 2026)—Two more areas of Sudan have fallen into famine-levels of malnutrition, signaling a deadly expansion of a hunger crisis in the conflict-torn country that is threatening ...