When it came to learning language, money mattered for pandemic preschoolers, according to a new study out of U of T Mississauga's Child Language and Speech Studies (CLASS) Lab. Priscilla Fung, a fifth ...

Pandemic exposure is associated with both positive and negative aspects of young children's cognitive and emotional well-being, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in JAMA Network Open.

Although adolescents are less susceptible to illness from COVID-19 than older people, there is evidence suggesting that pandemic lockdowns limited their ability to thrive. A new study by researchers ...

This new data suggests that hospital facilities in the US may need to plan for potentially atypical timing of bronchiolitis season once more for 2023. To assess pattern changes since the pandemic ...

The latest data came Tuesday in an annual report from the Census Bureau, which said the median household income, adjusted for inflation, rose 4% to $80,610 in 2023. The inflation-adjusted median ...

A comprehensive data revision shows the amount of pandemic-era excess savings still available in the U.S. economy may be larger than previously estimated—and is likely to last into the first half of ...

A survey of New York state residents found that nearly half of respondents increased the amount of time they spent on wild and backyard food in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic—confirming ...

U.S. animal shelters will start 2024 the most overcrowded they have been in years, according to a broad survey of animal rescue facilities, a symptom of persistent economic concern as the country’s ...

For the fourth year in a row, rates of gun injuries stayed above levels seen before the pandemic, a new government report shows. Race played a key role in who saw those higher rates of gun violence in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fewer Coloradans died in 2023 than in the previous year, but the state still lost more people than it did before the pandemic. Drug overdoses, COVID-19 and ...

The 2023 domestic box office surpassed $9 billion, the highest since the pandemic, Comscore said. However, it’s still $2 billion short of the yearly movie ticket sales reached before the pandemic.