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A low-cost motion-analysis lab in Manila has helped 4,000 children with mobility disabilities get better orthopedic care, with a new app helping clinicians track recovery between visits.
Read more: https://www.newswise.com/articles/engineering-professor-builds-motion-analysis-lab-to-help-philippine-children-with-disabilities

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#GoodNews #Accessibility #Rehabilitation #ChildrensHealth #HealthTech

A low-cost motion-analysis lab in Manila has helped 4,000 children with mobility disabilities get better orthopedic care, with a new app helping clinicians track recovery between visits.
Read more: https://www.newswise.com/articles/engineering-professor-builds-motion-analysis-lab-to-help-philippine-children-with-disabilities

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Accessibility #Rehabilitation #ChildrensHealth #HealthTech

A low-cost motion-analysis lab in Manila has helped 4,000 children with mobility disabilities get better orthopedic care, with a new app helping clinicians track recovery between visits.
Read more: https://www.newswise.com/articles/engineering-professor-builds-motion-analysis-lab-to-help-philippine-children-with-disabilities

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Accessibility #Rehabilitation #ChildrensHealth #HealthTech

A low-cost motion-analysis lab in Manila has helped 4,000 children with mobility disabilities get better orthopedic care, with a new app helping clinicians track recovery between visits.
Read more: https://www.newswise.com/articles/engineering-professor-builds-motion-analysis-lab-to-help-philippine-children-with-disabilities

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Accessibility #Rehabilitation #ChildrensHealth #HealthTech

A low-cost motion-analysis lab in Manila has helped 4,000 children with mobility disabilities get better orthopedic care, with a new app helping clinicians track recovery between visits.
Read more: https://www.newswise.com/articles/engineering-professor-builds-motion-analysis-lab-to-help-philippine-children-with-disabilities

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Accessibility #Rehabilitation #ChildrensHealth #HealthTech

How to keep your kids safe at petting zoos

Here’s what we know about the infection risk at petting zoos, and what parents can do to help keep their children safe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/are-petting-zoos-safe-infection/107117500

#InfectiousDiseases #Animals #ParentingChildren #ChildrensHealth #Zoos

How to keep your kids safe at petting zoos

Here’s what we know about the infection risk at petting zoos, and what parents can do to help keep their children safe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/are-petting-zoos-safe-infection/107117500

#InfectiousDiseases #Animals #ParentingChildren #ChildrensHealth #Zoos

How to keep your kids safe at petting zoos

Here’s what we know about the infection risk at petting zoos, and what parents can do to help keep their children safe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/are-petting-zoos-safe-infection/107117500

#InfectiousDiseases #Animals #ParentingChildren #ChildrensHealth #Zoos

How to keep your kids safe at petting zoos

Here’s what we know about the infection risk at petting zoos, and what parents can do to help keep their children safe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/are-petting-zoos-safe-infection/107117500

#InfectiousDiseases #Animals #ParentingChildren #ChildrensHealth #Zoos

How to keep your kids safe at petting zoos

Here’s what we know about the infection risk at petting zoos, and what parents can do to help keep their children safe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/are-petting-zoos-safe-infection/107117500

#InfectiousDiseases #Animals #ParentingChildren #ChildrensHealth #Zoos

The Guardian view on regulating big tech: Meta has got off too lightly | Editorial
By Editorial

New child safety measures are welcome, but the wider risks posed by these platforms remain unaddressed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/the-guardian-view-on-regulating-big-tech-meta-has-got-off-too-lightly

#Meta #Instagram #Facebook #Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #Children #Onlineabuse #USnews #Law #Childrenshealth #TheGuardian #Editorial

Reel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts
By Johana Bhuiyan

Tech Transparency Project’s report shows whenever governments mull platform regulations, company recruits influencers to promote its safety features

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/meta-pays-influencers-teen-social-media-ban

#Meta #Children #Childrenshealth #Instagram #Mentalhealth #Health #Facebook #Media #Technology #Society #Socialnetworking #TheGuardian #JohanaBhuiyan

Reel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/meta-pays-influencers-teen-social-media-ban #Meta #Children #ChildrensHealth #Instagram #MentalHealth #Health #Facebook #Media #Technology #Society #SocialNetworking

Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/aug/11/matilda-davis-mother-suicide-carer-broken-social-care-system-england #Carers #SocialCare #ParentsAndParenting #Disability #Society #ChildrensHealth #MentalHealth #UkNews

Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system
By Josh Halliday

Parent-carers of disabled children are exposed to chronic levels of extreme stress and often reach crisis point before help is available – then they face a ‘fight for basic support’, experts say. This is Matilda Davis’s story

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/aug/11/matilda-davis-mother-suicide-carer-broken-social-care-system-england

#Carers #Socialcare #Parentsandparenting #Disability #Society #Childrenshealth #Mentalhealth #UKnews #TheGuardian #JoshHalliday

Elle’s twins played with asbestos-contaminated coloured sand for a year. Why wasn’t she warned of its danger?
By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter

A New Zealand couple has fought to uncover why customers were originally told the children’s product, on sale in Australia, was ‘low risk’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/09/asbestos-contaminated-coloured-sand-danger-new-zealand-elle-twins

#Consumeraffairs #Australianews #Childrenshealth #Society #Productrecalls #Consumerrights #Asbestos #AustralianCompetitionandConsumerCommissionACCC #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter

‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/tech-firms-are-losing-the-public-social-media-age-bans-near-tipping-point #SocialMediaBans #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #SocialMediaBan #AustraliaNews #DigitalMedia #UkNews #WorldNews #Media #InternetSafety #Meta #Technology #OnlineAbuse #ChildrensHealth #Society