childrens' health

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.

Roughly 18 million children under the age of five are still not eligible for a COVID vaccine as parents struggle to keep them safe with limited daycare options.

A recent paper on work by the University of South Carolina's Mind & Brain Institute shows promise for identifying autism predictors a year earlier than is currently possible.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Elizabeth Mack about symptoms of influenza (or flu) vs. COVID-19 in children. Dr. Mack is the Division Chief for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at MUSC Children’s Health, and she’s a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Elizabeth Mack about symptoms of influenza (or flu) vs. COVID-19 in children. Dr. Mack is the Division Chief for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at MUSC Children’s Health, and she’s a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Porter Boever's family is part of of an ACLU lawsuit claiming South Carolina's budget proviso banning mask mandates in schools violates the American's with Disabilities Act

Parents, teachers and medical professionals debate a state law that prohibits schools from requiring masks even as the Delta variant surges with kids heading back to class.

Doctors say a recent surge in COVID-19 cases is pushing South Carolina's pediatric ICUs to capacity. The Prisma Health pediatricians said Monday the medical system for kids is also overloaded because of a rise in other respiratory viruses as people have stopped social distancing and mask-wearing. Pediatrician Dr. Deborah Greenhouse says these are more reasons to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Nearly a decade after the Great Recession, researchers were starting to see "promising trends" when it came to the well-being of kids in the U.S. But data from the being of the pandemic is showing that progress could be in jeopardy.

South Carolina ranked first in the United States for child vehicular heatstrokes in 2018, and with Palmetto State temperatures reaching highs of 100…