A day care center in Massachusetts closed on Wednesday and Thursday after a child developed typhoid fever. The child, who remains anonymous,...
Advocates against vaccines appear to be convincing parents of children with autism to skip getting their childhood shots, including younger siblings who...
Babies who reach the age of one may not be able to form complete sentences yet, but they are already able to...
More and more American kids are getting admitted to the intensive care unit due to prescription painkiller or other opioid overdoses, a...
Plastic materials used in some second-hand toys are potential health risks for children, as many of these toys don’t meet updated safety...
Parents may need to take more precautions when it comes to allowing their kids to use BB, pellet and paintball guns. A...
There’s a global campaign to reduce the use of tobacco products, including efforts to prevent children and teens from smoking or vaping....
A nine-year-old girl who was playing in a hotel swimming pool in Cambodia has been left permanently scarred after suffering an electric...
A woman in Texas has been arrested after it was discovered that her eight-year-old son had undergone 13 surgeries and hundreds of...
Doctors are still giving children codeine after common childhood surgeries, even after warnings regarding the dangers of opioids. Researchers say that one...
Grandparents who dote too much on their grandkids may not be helping the children’s health, a study says. Researchers from the University...
Luis Manuel Gonzales is ten months old but weighs as heavy as a nine-year-old, puzzling his parents and doctors alike, who have...
A child in Germany who has a genetic disease that leaves his skin extremely fragile has been given genetically modified skin. Hassan...
The two-year-old boy in Georgia who was denied a kidney transplant because the donor, his father, violated his probation, was rushed to...
Having kids sit on an adult’s lap while going down a slide can easily result in injuries, doctors warn. Parents often allow...
A nine-year-old boy took a bite of a hotdog and had a heart attack, but not for reasons related to the food....
New recommendations released by the American Academy of Pediatrics states that more children and adolescents are likely to register as having abnormal...
Health officials in the United Kingdom are cracking down on childhood obesity. Their new plan is to reduce the caloric intake of...
The practice of putting intersex children through surgery to have their anatomy rearranged before they’re of age to consent is currently under...
The hospital treating Charlie Gard in London said that it has been receiving death threats, and staff members are being subjected to...