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Poor air quality caused by wildfire smoke fills an empty playground.
August 21, 2023

Parents should be especially mindful to protect young children from exposure to wildfire smoke when air quality plummets to unhealthy levels.

July 11, 2023

Q&A:  A pediatric dermatologist sees global warming's effects in his patients: "Everyone is affected, but not equally." 

The CASCADIA study is being conducted by UW Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research (CHR), and Seattle Children's Hospital (SCH), in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
June 9, 2022

A new study involving researchers from UW Medicine, Seattle Children's and the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, aims to shed light on the spread of COVID-19 in the region and how well vaccines protect against the

June 9, 2022

Researchers seek to recruit 3,500 children and adults to assess how well vaccines protect against COVID-19 infection.

Children ages 5-11 are the latest group to become eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, following approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 19.
May 20, 2022

Children ages 5-11 are the latest group to become eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, following approval from the Centers for Disease Co

Children and adolescents have experienced higher rates of sleep disturbances as a group than have healthcare workers and the general population, according to new meta-analysis from throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 16, 2022

More than 3 in 10 people suffered disrupted or disturbed sleep at some point during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research on the sleep habits of 493,000 people across 49 countries.

March 16, 2022

“The number of children with sleep disturbances nearly doubled,” says a UW Medicine psychiatrist and sleep specialist.

American children ages 12 and up have had access to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine since the spring. The CDC could approve a low-dose version for kids ages 5-11 in the first week of November.
November 2, 2021

This week, the last few hurdles could be cleared for U.S. children ages 5-11 to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine dose.

November 16, 2021

The information helps hospitals know whether their pediatric radiation doses are in the range of what's appropriate for common studies.

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