HEALTH CARE

The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation this fall is a byproduct of financial decisions made by...

Babies born to mothers who vape during pregnancy are at greater risk of developing pulmonary dysfunction, according to a new...

During some of their most formative years, many children go to day care centers outside their homes. While there, they...

Antibodies produced against the commonly used antibiotic, gentamicin, appear to increase the risk of type 1 diabetes in children already...

Antiviral drugs almost completely reduce the risk of mothers passing on HIV infection to their children, even in a low-income...

Diarrhea is no longer the killer it was in the mid-20th century, when an estimated 4.5 million children under age...

Behind Florida's decision to block clinical services for transgender adolescents is a talking point — repeated by the state's governor...

A study recently published in the journal Vaccine describes the risk of menstrual disturbances in adolescent girls aged 12-15 years after...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is rapidly rising in incidence worldwide and affects up to one in six pregnant women. A...

A team of researchers from Nagoya University in central Japan investigated how restrictions on children's activities during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Teens with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) who took bromocriptine, a medication used to treat Parkinson's disease and Type 2 diabetes,...

Authorization has today been granted for a new presentation of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) for use in infants and...

A major challenge in testing new therapies for people with intellectual disability is finding accurate tools to measure whether the...

A new JAMA Network Open study determines the impact of wearing glasses on the risk of infection with the severe...