HEALTH CARE

Whether it’s headaches, abdominal pain, or unrelenting joint soreness, up to a third of young people in Australia experience chronic...

About 90 percent of Americans consume sodium, a mineral, and one of the chemical elements found in salt, at levels...

Infants born to mothers prescribed opioids after delivery, mostly after a cesarean, are at no greater risk of harm shortly...

A global maternal immunization program for group B Streptococcus - Strep B - would save millions of dollars in healthcare...

Tamara Etienne's second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days — exacerbated by a first pregnancy...

Food allergies involve adverse immunological reactions initiated by usually harmless proteins in food substances. Therefore, molecular assessments of food allergens...

Odds are, kids aren't going to list bicycle helmets high on the cool list. But for parents praying the yearly...

Community health workers can make a great difference in increasing the number of pregnant women who receive life-saving preventive antimalarial...

New research emphasizes how important children's well-being is for their sense of achievement. Pupils' sense of how good their results...

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A Kaiser Permanente study of more than 800,000 young people between the ages of 3 and 17 showed that youth...

In the United States, low-income, Latino youth are disproportionately affected by obesity with 25.8% of Latino youth aged 2-19 considered...

Research indicates that prenatal second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure, also referred to as environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), increases the risk...

Financial disruption as a result of pandemic containment policies in the United States adversely influenced children's mental health, according to...