By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK | Mon May 6, 2013 12:51am EDT (Reuters Health) - Toddlers are less likely to have asthma and itchy rashes if their...

I really thought there was a Clean Plate Club. Back when I was a kid, the country where kids-who-weren’t-me were starving was Biafra, and my par...

CHICAGO -- Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube video...

Every month in the medical journals, new papers suggest that without skillful management from adults, media influences children for the worse.

By Kerry Grens | Reuters – Fri, Mar 1, 2013 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children will meet activity goals to earn rewards, but the extra effo...

Eating disorders are complex mental illnesses stemming from a variety of contributing factors; they are not any one person's -- or parent's -- fault.

Jan 29 (Reuters) - A drug-free placebo pill prevents migraines in children and teens just as well as most headache medicines, according to a U.S. st...

"All that rot they teach to children about the little raindrop fairies with their buckets washing down the window panes must go. We need less sentimentality and more spanking." Or so said Granville Stanley Hall, founder of child psychology, in 1899

The way you talk to your child about doctors' visits is important. Kids are sensitive to their parent's emotional state, so a calm and reassuring tone is important.

Stomachaches account for numerous visits to pediatricians' offices. Parents often worry that a kidney infection or appendicitis is responsible for the pain. Although serious disorders can cause abdominal pain, the problem is usually due to something less worrisome.

By: MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Published: 11/16/2012 03:32 PM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily The health benefits of breast-feeding have been intensely re...

New Jersey is not just where I live; it is a part of who I am, as much as it is for the families I care for in my pediatric practice. I am deeply embedded, consciously, within my community.

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK | Mon Nov 5, 2012 12:37am EST (Reuters Health) - A program aimed at reducing the number of hours young children s...

How our nation treats its children reflects our societal values. Children can't vote. They depend on us -- parents, grandparents, pediatricians, teachers, and other child health advocates and professionals, to do right by them.

This time of transition can be a wonderful opportunity for your family to pause and prepare your child for the coming school year with a sense of heightened joy and anticipation.

I may be 94 years old, but I'm not done. We health care professionals have a duty to advocate for what we now know children need, and to empower their families and federal legislators to do the same.