Common childhood infections once considered mere inconveniences may provide unexpected long-term benefits. Emerging research suggests certain illnesses experienced during childhood could play a role ...

TALLASSEE, Ala. (WSFA) - Ian Pendergrass, a junior at Tallassee High School, is turning his love of mountaineering into a campaign to raise money and awareness for childhood illness. Pendergrass said ...

Some physicians are increasingly worried that Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), a potentially disabling and sometimes lethal bacterial infection in children, is making a comeback as vaccine ...

Objective To investigate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and health outcomes in childhood-onset ...

A new federal report issued by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission portrays children’s health as in alarming decline due to poor diet, chemical exposures, over-medicalization, a lack of ...

As pediatric vaccination rates continue to decline, preventable illnesses will reemerge for all age groups, according to The New York Times. Between the 2019 to 2020 and 2022 to 2023 school years, ...

During the first 30 months of the COVID-19 pandemic — from March 2020 through August 2022 — serious and potentially preventable illnesses or deaths among children in Ontario, Canada, did not increase ...

The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term ...

Since anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the reigns over the Department of Health and Human Services, cases of once defeated childhood illnesses like measles and mumps ...

How common is childhood mental illness? If you asked 20 mental health clinicians, you could easily get 20 different answers. This lack of consensus does not mean clinicians aren’t being well trained, ...