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3 million children, adolescents slip into coverage gap

October 22, 2008 — 12:02pm ET | By Molly Bernhart
At some point during the year, approximately 3 million U.S. children and adolescents will have a gap in healthcare coverage, even though at least one of their parents is insured. A new study by the... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Should we put kids on cholesterol-fighting drugs?

July 7, 2008 — 8:49pm ET | By Anne Zieger
A new recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics that children as young as 8 years old use cholesterol-fighting statin drugs has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the medical... Read more...

Study: Very few child drug trials get outside oversight

March 20, 2008 — 7:59am ET
A new study suggests that drug trials involving children get shockingly little oversight from outside safety monitoring groups. The study, which reviewed 739 international trials mounted between... Read more...