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Teenage girls have led the way in a surge of children and adolescents visiting hospital emergency rooms for psychiatric care after suicide attempts, self-cutting, violence and drug overdoses, new federal data shows.

Diagnosed developmental disabilities in children and teenagers soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

The number of teenage girls visiting emergency rooms for eating disorders, self-cutting and suicide attempts soared in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study has found.

Fewer infants, children and teenagers visited emergency rooms in 2020 as hospitals discouraged non-COVID cases, according to federal data released Tuesday.

Gestational diabetes among pregnant women before childbirth is on the rise, climbing 27% from 2016 to 2021, according to federal data released Wednesday.

Julia McKenna, a senior at the University of Notre Dame, used to stress out over grades. Then she took four "ungraded" courses that didn't use them.

College freshman Sophie Wakefield says stress from taking virtual classes almost made her drop out this year. But that was before she learned her classmates had considered quitting, too.