Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A memorial honoring San Carlos Apache teen Emily Pike can be seen at the intersection of Mesa Drive and McKellips Road in Mesa, ...

Death certificates from 2003 until 2024 were analyzed for the study, showing significant disparities between age and sex.

The overall death rate of children and adolescents in the United States increased 6.6% between 2020 and 2023, researchers reported on May 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many of the top ...

After decades of progress, more children under the age of 5 are at risk of death than in previous years. Many of these deaths are preventable, given proper funding and resources. But international ...

HARRISBURG — Many Pennsylvania counties are failing to review the death of every child in their area, despite a 2008 state law that requires them to do so. The problem, advocates and program ...

Destiny Avila and Leon Johnson will both spend more than four decades in prison. Investigators said their nine-month-old girl was found dead and severely malnourished in December 2024.

New Brunswick's child and youth advocate is calling for change to the child death review process after the office was not notified about the death of a boy formerly in government care. Advocate Kelly ...

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