childrens news

The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced today the launch of UNICEF's Next Generation to engage young adults with UNICEF's mission to save, protect and improve the lives of children around the world.

Canon Promotional Night at Yankee Stadium Spotlights How Digital Photos Can Help Quickly and Effectively Locate Missing Children

US$ 9.7 million grant from Gates Foundation to help crucial research on children's medicines

Kennedy Krieger Institute researchers find girls with ADHD do not experience same motor skill difficulties as their male peers

Treatment that combines a certain type of psychotherapy with an antidepressant medication is most likely to help children with anxiety disorders, but each of the treatments alone are also effective.

The Cure Our Children Foundation, a nonprofit charitable foundation dedicated to children, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Orphan Drug Designation of the foundation's unique drug product for children with Ewing's Sarcoma cancer.

The consumption of soft drinks is generally considered to be a contributing factor in childhood obesity.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this evening in support of the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde Global Leadership Against HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.

About 30 science teachers from Washington - plus two from Singapore and one from Australia - are spending part of their vacation at summer school working beside scientists in research laboratories at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and several other partner sites throughout Seattle.

A massive airlift of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) Plumpy'Nut arrived in Addis Ababa last night as part of UNICEF's emergency response to meet the urgent needs of severely malnourished children in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia.

UNICEF missions throughout the flooded regions of Myanmar report that the destruction of homes, schools and water and sanitation systems are is now affecting the lives and well-being of 1 million children.

The children's agency launches "It's About Ability" a publication for children on the Convention

Amid worsening drought conditions, soaring food prices and mass displacement of people due to conflict, UNICEF has started supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor in Central and Southern Somalia.Amid worsening drought conditions, soaring food prices and mass displacement of people due to conflict, UNICEF has started supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor in Central and Southern Somalia.

Two days after the largest earthquake to hit China in a generation, news of its full impact on the communities living close to the epicenter is still trickling in at a painfully slow speed.

UNICEF is deeply concerned at reports that a number of children have been killed during attacks on two villages of North Darfur, in the west of Sudan, and calls on the Government forces and the other parties to the ongoing conflict to take every necessary action to prevent future deaths or injuries amongst children.

More than 100 integrated preschools for rural children

As part of its emergency response to assist flood affected Zambian schools, UNICEF, has flown in 58 schools-in-a-box from its supply division in Copenhagen.

Researchers share 5 key tips for parents to protect children from unsafe driving situations

In its 10th year, RBC is offering up to $2.5 million in grants, $900,000 of which is set aside to fund as many as 23 first-time grant recipients.

UNICEF and Dubai Cares announced today the launch of new education programmes in Djibouti that will help accelerate access to education for children and promote gender equality in the country.