Tag Archives: Young

We tend to think of childhood as a time of innocence and joy, but as many as 2 to 3 percent of children from ages 6 to 12 can have serious depression. When parents bring their children in for medical care these days, there is no such thing as a …

Medical privacy has become the latest casualty of vaccination efforts, as friends, co-workers and even total strangers ask intrusive questions about personal health conditions. Peter Gamlen When Helena Jenkins, 23, recently asked to leave work early for a vaccination appointment, her boss at a Nashville retail store was incredulous. “Well …

Experts paint a grim picture of the struggle with lockdown isolation — a “mental health pandemic” that should be treated as seriously as containing the coronavirus. Life seemed promising last year to Philaé Lachaux, a 22-year-old business student in France who dreamed of striking out on her own in the …

Photo by Diego Cervo / Shutterstock.com When people talk about “aging gracefully,” they’re usually referring to physical appearance. But you can also have a gracefully aging mind. In recent years, scientific research has delved into the secrets of people in their 80s and 90s whose brains function well — by …

The discovery of a 9,000-year-old female skeleton buried with what archaeologists call a “big-game hunting kit” in the Andes highlands of Peru has challenged one of the most widely held tenets about ancient hunter gatherers — that males hunted and females gathered. Randy Haas, an archaeologist at the University of …

People whose mothers had diabetes before or during pregnancy have an increased risk for heart disease as young adults, new research suggests. The risk was apparent both for children of mothers with pre-existing Type 2 diabetes and for children whose mothers developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy. The study, in the …

Back in August 2019, 3 startup founders were appointed by Mahathir and Syed Saddiq as youth leaders in their fields of expertise to work with the previous National Economic Action Council (NEAC) lineup. They were Nadhir Ashafiq, Executive Director and co-founder of TheLorry, Liew Ooi Hann, founder and Director of Jirnexu, and …

As coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, we’re working to answer the questions on many parents’ minds. For the latest updates, read The New York Times’s live coronavirus coverage here. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week that all Americans should wear cloth face coverings …

Parents, right off the bat, let me say that there is no right way to be feeling about the current situation. Relief, anxiety, excitement, dread are all normal. We’re all figuring this out as we go along and doing the best we can. Virtual high-five! This is not a homeschooling …