Pediatricians Are Rolling Out New RSV and COVID Vaccine Guidance This Fall, and It’s Noticeably Different From What Parents Heard Just Last Year

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The American Academy of Pediatrics has released updated RSV and COVID-19 immunization guidance for the 2026-2027 respiratory virus season, and for the first time in recent memory, it didn’t come through the CDC’s own vaccine advisory process. The AAP’s own policy statements, published alongside matching recommendations from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the … Read more

Home Insurers Are Quietly Dropping Coverage in These High-Risk ZIP Codes Nationwide, and Homeowners Are Finding Out Only When They Try to Renew Their Policy

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Homeowners insurers non-renewed policies at nearly triple the 2024 rate they did in 2018 across the 15 most disaster-exposed states, and company-initiated non-renewals climbed between 96% and 216% in every region of the country over that same seven-year stretch, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ first-of-its-kind market analysis, released August 5, 2026. The … Read more

A Multi-Day Severe Storm Threat Is Sweeping From the Plains to the East Coast This Week, and Forecasters Say Flash Flooding Is a Bigger Danger to Homes Than the Wind Itself

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A multi-day severe weather stretch that pushed from the northern Plains through the Midwest and into the Northeast this past week has already knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers, including roughly 280,000 homes in Michigan alone, according to Fox Weather’s tracking of the event. Wind gusts reached 75 mph in the hardest-hit zones … Read more

Roughly Two Hundred Eighty Three Thousand Kids End Up in the Emergency Room Every Year With a Sports Related Brain Injury, Federal Health Data Shows, and Football and Bike Riding Top the List

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An estimated 283,000 kids show up in U.S. emergency rooms every single year with a sports- or recreation-related brain injury, according to federal data published by the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Nearly half of those visits, about 45%, trace back to contact sports specifically. Football sits at the top of the list of … Read more

Sixty Four Percent of American Teenagers Are Now Using AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT, New Research Shows, but Barely Half of Their Parents Even Realize Their Kid Is Talking to One

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Sixty-four percent of American teenagers now use an AI chatbot, and 30% of them open one every single day, according to Pew Research Center. Yet when researchers turned around and asked the parents of those same teens whether their kid uses a chatbot, only 51% said yes, according to a companion Pew Research Center survey … Read more

American Kids Now Earn an Average of Thirty Seven Dollars a Week in Allowance, New Survey Data Shows, and Most Parents Admit They Still Don’t Know How to Explain Money to Their Own Kids

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American kids are pulling in an average of $37 a week in allowance, according to a Wells Fargo survey conducted with Ipsos. Seventy-one percent of parents say they hand out an allowance at all, and the vast majority believe it’s genuinely teaching their kids something about spending. But dig one layer deeper into the same … Read more

Nearly a Third of American Kids Now Have at Least One Diagnosed Allergy, Fresh Federal Health Data Shows, and Rural Children Are Developing Seasonal Allergies at Even Higher Rates Than Kids in Cities

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More than one in five American kids (20.6%) now has a diagnosed seasonal allergy, according to fresh federal data released by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Add in the 12.7% of children with eczema and the 5.3% with a diagnosed food allergy, and allergic conditions are no longer an occasional childhood issue; they’re … Read more

Every New Car Seat Sold in the US Will Soon Have to Survive a Simulated Side Impact Crash Test for the First Time Ever, Federal Regulators Say, Though Parents Won’t Need to Replace the Seat They Already Own

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Every new car seat sold in the United States will soon have to pass a simulated side-impact crash test before it can reach store shelves. The requirement, known as Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 213a, takes effect December 5, 2026, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Under the new standard, manufacturers must test … Read more

Nearly Twenty Three Thousand Evenflo Revolve180 Car Seats Are Being Recalled Because a Miscalibrated Indicator Can Leave a Child Sitting More Upright Than Parents Ever Realized

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About 22,981 Evenflo Revolve180 Litemax NXT infant car seats are being recalled after federal testing found the seat’s recline indicator can be miscalibrated, leaving a child sitting more upright in the seat than the design allows, according to NHTSA’s recall campaign 26C005. Owner notification letters began going out September 1, 2026. Key Points The recall … Read more

Federal Safety Regulators Are Warning Parents That Counterfeit Squishy Toys Going Viral for a Microwave Trend Can Explode and Cause Serious Burns on Children’s Hands and Faces

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Federal regulators are warning that counterfeit squishy toys can burst and cause serious burns when heated, an alert tied directly to a viral social media trend showing the toys being microwaved, according to CPSC’s consumer safety alert, issued August 5, 2026. This is not a recall of a specific product but a broad warning about … Read more