Does your child balk at the sight of his toothbrush? Here’s how to calmly diffuse this situation so his teeth can be properly ...

Perhaps no issue in modern society is more divisive or emotional than whether children should receive sex-change treatments.

Before Hib vaccination, about 20,000 children younger than five developed severe Hib disease each year in the United States, ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that parents of newborns spend more than $900 on disposable diapers in the first year.

Until last week, parents who looked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website on autism and vaccines ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. James Campbell, an expert on childhood infectious diseases, about the CDC's new messaging on the relationship between vaccines and autism.

There is no established link between childhood vaccines and autism—that’s a sentiment echoed by the American Academy of ...

Integrated pediatric primary care — offering medical, behavioral, and social support — leads to more preventive visits and ...