“I would never let my kid play with a toy with a button battery,” says a gastroenterologist. Those tiny batteries are ...

A new study in the medical journal Pediatrics found that peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 declined by more than 27% ...

TAMPA, Fla (WFLA) — You see more and more of the e-bikes on the streets. Local hospitals are saying there’s been a surge of injuries on those e-bikes, especially among kids. Doctors are urging parents ...

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Parenting often swings between being too controlling or too lenient - but kids actually need structure, not constant criticism. On Andrea Miller's "Getting Open" podcast, Dr. Richard Schwartz explains ...

Dr. Tsion Firew at her home in Kigali, Rwanda, on Oct. 3. A year ago, Rwanda announced the country's first Marburg outbreak — a deadly virus that's a cousin to Ebola. Firew, who is chair of emergency ...

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

A growing program in Utah schools is helping students get care without having to leave the classroom. School-Based Telehealth, offered through Intermountain Health, connects students with medical ...

PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...

If you have a young child, you know how difficult a trip to the pediatrician can be. In the first year alone, you can have as many as seven appointments with a pediatrician so that they can monitor ...