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- Age at first measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in children with autism and school-matched control subjects: a population-based study in metropolitan Atlanta (2004)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2004
DeStefano F, Bhasin TK, Thompson WW, Yeargin-Allsopp M, Boyle C
Case-control study of 624 autism cases and 1,824 matched controls in metropolitan Atlanta. Vaccination before 36 months: OR 1.49 (95% CI 1.04-2.14) in the total sample…
- Ahlan Simsim Initiative
Document · 2025
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop's page on Ahlan Simsim, its program with the International Rescue Committee for families displaced by conflict in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
- Amazon Alexa Children’s Privacy Settlement: $25 Million Penalty (2023)
Government Record · 2023
U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission
Justice Department and FTC, July 2023: Amazon agreed to a $25 million penalty over keeping children's Alexa voice recordings and not honoring deletion requests. Settled, not…
- America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition: Lead — Biomonitoring Updates (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA’s analysis of NHANES reports a 95% decline in median blood lead among children ages 1–5 from 1976–1980 to 2015–2016. The 95th percentile fell from 29…
- An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination (Sounding Board) (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Prasad V, Makary MA
The FDA leadership's 2025 framework piece arguing that new COVID-19 vaccine approvals should be limited to adults 65 and older and people at high risk unless…
- An Evidence-Based Critique of ‘The Cass Review’ on Gender-affirming Care for Adolescent Gender Dysphoria (2024)
Document · 2024
McNamara M, Baker K, Connelly K, Janssen A, Olson-Kennedy J, Pang KC, et al. (Yale Integrity Project)
39-page critique by Yale-led clinicians/scholars alleging the Cass Review misapplies evidence-based medicine, misrepresents its own data, and that the commissioned York systematic reviews have serious methodological…
- An Examination of Foster Care in the United States and the Use of Privatization
Government Record · 2017
U.S. Senate Finance Committee staff
The Senate Finance Committee staff report on privatized foster care, including foster parent recruitment and retention.
- An Update on Kids and Data Protection on YouTube
Document · 2019
YouTube
YouTube's September 2019 post, after the FTC settlement: anyone watching children's content would be treated as a child for data purposes, with no personalized ads.
- An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook
Document · 2018
Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer, Facebook
Facebook estimated that information on up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
- Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders (2020)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
Hooker BS, Miller NZ
Included as context: a study aligned with the book's viewpoint that nonetheless documents, in its own introduction, the design flaws (convenience sampling, unverified parental recall, small…
- Another challenge to vax-mandate carve-outs (Prescription Pulse) (2025)
News Report · 2025
Politico
The notable 2025 litigation was not in Texas: the Supreme Court ordered the Second Circuit to reconsider its decision upholding New York's repeal of religious exemptions…
- Antidepressant Dispensing to US Adolescents and Young Adults: 2016–2022 (2024)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2024
Kao-Ping Chua, Anna Volerman, Jing Zhang, Jenna Hua, Rena M. Conti
Using national all-payer IQVIA dispensing data for ages 12–25, this study found a 66.3% increase in monthly antidepressant dispensing from 2016 to 2022. In 2022, 2,043,476…
- Arcus Foundation Form 990, Tax Year 2023
Corporate Filing · 2023
Arcus Foundation
Arcus’s 2023 return records $100,000 to Campaign for Southern Equality for the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project. Other selected entries are $765,087 to Borealis Philanthropy for…
- Are We Overmedicating Children in Foster Care? (House Ways and Means Hearing, 2014)
Transcript · 2014
U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources
The 2014 House Ways and Means hearing on psychotropic drugs in foster care. Its background cites research that nearly one in four foster children used a…
- Arizona YouTube Mom Charged with Child Abuse Dies
News Report · 2019
NBC News
NBC, November 2019: Machelle Hobson died before trial after pleading not guilty and being found unfit to stand trial. She was never convicted.
- Assembly Bill 56, Chapter 671, Statutes of 2025: Social Media Warning Law
Government Record · 2025
California Legislature
California enacted black-box warnings for covered users not reasonably determined to be over 17, initially each day and after three hours/hourly thereafter. The official California Attorney…
- Association Between Medication Use and Performance on Higher Education Entrance Tests in Individuals With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2017)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017
Yi Lu et al.
A Swedish within-person analysis of 930 intermittent medication users taking 2,524 entrance tests found scores 4.80 points higher during medicated periods after adjustment. This is JAMA…
- Association Between Time Spent Using Social Media and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among US Youth
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Kira E. Riehm et al.
Among 6,595 adolescents, adjusted internalizing-problem relative-risk ratios were 1.60 for more than 3 to 6 hours and 1.78 for more than 6 hours versus no use;…
- Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2023
Maria T. Maza et al.
The three-year cohort included 169 sixth- and seventh-grade students from three rural North Carolina schools. Checking was self-reported at wave 1; annual fMRI showed different neural…
- Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
John S. Hutton et al.
This cross-sectional study involved 47 healthy children aged 3–5. Higher ScreenQ scores were associated with lower measures of white-matter organization and corresponding cognitive measures; some cognitive…
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management — Overview (2026)
Government Record · 2026
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NICE last reviewed NG87 on July 23, 2026 and decided not to update the recommendations on adapted trauma-focused treatment. The guideline will be reviewed again if…
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management — Recommendations (2019)
Government Record · 2019
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NICE requires persistent significant impairment after environmental modifications have been implemented and reviewed before medication for children aged five and over, with information discussion and baseline…
- Attention Spans: Consumer Insights, Microsoft Canada
Document · 2015
Microsoft Canada
The marketing report displays 12 seconds for 2000, 8 seconds for 2013, and 9 seconds for a goldfish, visibly citing “Statistic brain.”
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Prevalence and Health Care Access, 2024 (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
The 2024 NSCH data brief estimates current ADHD at 11.7%, approximately 7.1 million children. Its analytic sample was 44,611 children aged 3–17 with current-ADHD responses, drawn…