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The Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual Kids Count Data Book, charting factors contributing to healthy children, sees the Palmetto State where it's been for years, among states with the worst overall numbers. Especially alarming is a rise in deaths among children and teens.
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Beginning in the fall of 2025, meals served in school cafeterias across the U.S. will have less sugar, less sodium, and more variety.
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 1,220 people in the United States are killed by extreme heat every year.
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This week Bobbi Conner talks with Ashley Early about cognitive behavioral therapy for children with anxiety disorders.
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This week Bobbi Conner talks with Ashley Early about cognitive behavioral therapy for children with anxiety disorders.
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Soon after pandemic Medicaid protections began unwinding in May, South Carolina posted some of the highest rates of disenrollment. By September, South Carolina's numbers leveled off, but Georgia saw big disenrollment totals.
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Doctors are bracing for how RSV, influenza and COVID-19 could combine this winter to stress hospital resources. Dr. Elizabeth Mack of Medical University of South Carolina said in a news release, "South Carolina is drowning in RSV." The surge arrived earlier this year than normal.
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The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.That notice involved a paltry sum, $26.50 — absurd really, given he’d previously been told he owed $2.5 million for treatment of his newborn’s congenital heart defect and other disorders.
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Formulas for toddlers are a burgeoning business in the United States: Sales of the drinks more than doubled in recent years as companies convinced parents that their little ones needed the liquid boost. But many experts warn that these products, designed for children ages 1 to 3, fill no nutritional needs beyond what is available in a typical toddler diet, are subject to less regulation than infant formula, and are expensive.In addition, some parents feed the toddler versions to infants even though they do not meet federal standards for infant formula and may not provide babies with adequate nutrients to sustain their growth.
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Tennessee and South Carolina are joining five other states in extending health care coverage to women with low-to-modest incomes for a full year after childbirth. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced friday the expansion of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program on Friday. It comes as the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn women's constitutional right to abortion, making maternal health care more urgent than ever.