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The children of Ukraine, the ones who have survived, are traumatized.

As the war — which began in February 2022 with the invasion by Russia — rages on, U.S. officials have estimated that the number of people killed or injured in the 18-month conflict is nearing 500,000. And among the estimated 70,000 Ukrainians killed and more than 100,000 citizens of the country wounded, at least 1,500 of the deaths and injuries have been children, according to an estimate in June by Denise Brown, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine.

“Children are experiencing severe psychological trauma because of the war,” says Dr. Irwin Redlener, co-founder of the Ukraine Children’s Action Project (Ucap), a nonprofit that he and his wife, Karen, started soon after the war began last year. The charity is working to help kids in the country — as well as children who are refugees in Poland — gain access to mental health services, health care...

Harry Belafonte, who died Tuesday, first crossed paths with Dr. Irwin Redlener, the healthcare reform activist who cofounded Children’s Health Fund, in boardroom meetings for USA for Africa during the mid-Eighties. Belafonte had gotten the idea for the organization after seeing how Band Aid’s 1984 recording “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” raised awareness about the Ethiopian famine, and launched a similar humanitarian effort that included the all-star song “We Are the World,” Hands Across America, and the disbursement of some $100,000,000 over the past 35 years to provide famine and...

It’s right there in the name: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is supposed to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases — or, failing that, control them.

But the Atlanta-based CDC by its own admission screwed up the initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic back in early 2020. And now there’s a growing sense of worry among epidemiologists that the agency is screwing up the responses to outbreaks of monkeypox and polio, too.

“I’m sorry to say that the public, as well as a number of public-health professionals,...

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In late February, when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Hollywood was quick to respond in helping the embattled country. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher launched a GoFundMe for humanitarian aid efforts that raised 30 million in two weeks, including 3 million of their own contribution; Hayden Panettiere established Hoplon International to raise critical funding for medical supplies and protective gear for those on the front lines; Bethenny Frankel’s BStrong raised nearly 20 million by the end of March; and Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds matched up to 1 million in donations to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Cut to four months later, and the war is still raging in Ukraine, though the public attention — and therefore the financial support — has faded.

“They saw the images. They were invested, they were horrified, they’re reading the news: ‘It’s so terrible what’s going on with all the kids,...

About a half hour into President Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus briefing on Tuesday, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski sounded as if she had just about enough.

“Trump is flat out lying to the American people and right now our network and all networks should be cutting in to FactCheck him,” she wrote on Twitter. “If we’re going to carry these ridiculous briefings, we need to give it context and we need to fact check a President who has trouble with the truth.”

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Trump is flat out lying to the American people and right now our network and all...

Children’s Health Fund, founded in 1987 by pediatrician/child advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, and singer/songwriter Paul Simon, is committed to providing comprehensive health care to the nation’s most medically underserved children through the development and support of innovative primary care medical programs and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children.

For more than 20 years, Paul Simon has been an advocate for America’s most vulnerable children. And, with Paul’s support, Children’s Health Fund has grown to become a respected national organization that is not only delivering health care to at-risk children but also providing a voice for them as well.

Through the years, Paul has held multiple charity concerts and benefit events supporting Chf. He has traveled to the nation’s capital to speak to elected officials on behalf of Chf and America’s children. Paul traveled with Chf teams responding...

In 1987, Simon co-founded the Children's Health Fund with pediatrician Dr. Irwin Redlener, and launched a mobile medical clinic to bring healthcare to homeless children in New York City. Today, Children’s Health Fund has a fleet of 50 medical, dental and mental health clinics on wheels. Working in partnership with local hospitals or community health centers, Children’s Health Fund has provided health care to hundreds of thousands of poor and indigent children in urban and rural locations across America. With its mobile clinics, Children’s Health Fund has also responded to the need for urgent medical care for communities devastated by Hurricanes Andrew, Katrina and Sandy. A voice for the country’s most vulnerable children, Children’s Health Fund has been a powerful advocate for expanding the safety net for children in poverty, and is currently collaborating with government and schools to ensure that all children are healthy and ready...

Underprivileged children suffer enough medical problems as it is, but Ptsd? Even years of funding and observing health care for needy kids didn't prepare Paul Simon for that.

"We found something like 60 percent of the kids in Louisiana [as many as 20,000] were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after Katrina," said the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician, who recently spoke at length with The Huffington Post about children's health in the U.S. and the Children's Health Fund (Chf), the charity he co-founded with renowned child advocate and Columbia professor Dr. Irwin Redlener. Ptsd was one of the "issues that we weren't even thinking of when we first started."

The duo created the Chf after touring a homeless shelter in Manhattan. The mandate of the charity is to bring mobile, pediatric care to neglected neighborhoods. It started in 1987 with one mobile clinic in Manhattan -- today they have 50 such units across the country,...

Japan has been battered by an earthquake and tsunami, and now new nuclear threats have the nation in crisis mode. Officials say a "partial meltdown" was likely underway at a Fukushima facility on Sunday, and fears of radiation leakage at other plants have forced an evacuation of about 200,000 people in surrounding areas. Meanwhile, search and rescue operations are underway to find survivors. Japanese media estimate the current death toll to be as high as 1,700, but much worse figures are feared: One coastal town alone is missing 10,000 of its residents, and some of the hardest-hit areas had still not been reached by rescue crews as of early Sunday. The U.S. is sending helicopters as well as an aircraft carrier equipped to serve as a hospital. View our gallery below of wrenching images from the disaster. Plus:

• A nuclear expert from MIT answers our pressing questions on Japan's nuclear fallout. How bad could it get?...

Japan's tradition of emergency planning and strict building codes saved countless lives this week-but what would happen here? Disaster-preparation expert Irwin Redlener on America's shocking lack of readiness-and our history of ignoring wakeup calls. Plus, full coverage of Japan's quake.

On Friday morning, Americans awoke to news of an unfolding catastrophe in Japan. This latest disaster will certainly fall among the more serious natural calamities in modern times.

Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan

Unfortunately, fatalities and damages will most certainly dwarf early estimates. The need for bolstering initial rescue efforts and preventing secondary calamities is rising by the hour, with the most serious threat ahead being damage to a nuclear-power plant located in the disaster impact area. A meltdown at the plant could imperil tens of thousands of citizens, especially children and pregnant women.

But unlike Haiti, for example, Japan is a highly developed...

Children’s Health Fund (Chf) is one of the charities benefiting from tonight’s “Idol Gives Back,” the Emmy Award-winning television event and musical celebration raising awareness and funds to benefit various U.S. and international charities. Chf, an “Idol Gives Back” beneficiary for the third time, is the nation’s leading pediatric provider of mobile-based health care to homeless and low-income children and their families – regardless of their ability to pay. At least 14 million children and youth in the U.S. – one in five – live in poverty, and often when people live in poverty, they struggle to get access to ongoing health care. Each one of Chf’s 24 programs across the country has received support from “Idol Gives Back.”

Simon Cowell’s visit to Chf’s Southern Arizona program will air as part of “Idol Gives Back,” airing tonight, Wednesday, April 21 (8:00-10:00 Pm Et live/Pt tape-delayed), on Fox.