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.

Yale SOM operations scholar Zhen Lian and her co-authors created an interactive tool that helped San Francisco reach consensus on school schedules, move start times later, and save millions of dollars ...

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 ...

Ian McMahan is a certified athletic trainer who has previously worked with the 49ers, Major League Soccer and the Women's ...

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, research plans to investigate all the possible causes of autism are in the works.

Efforts are targeting areas believed to be contributors or key drivers of the challenged subspecialty workforce, including ...