Child Health & Disorders

Health experts and clinicians view parental involvement as an important part of solving the childhood obesity. It is very important for parents to choose right...

Portion control and cutting carbs are known to be effective for weight loss, but controlling carbs can be difficult for obese kids found a new...

Bickering parents and poor caregiver relationships each increase levels of the stress hormone cortisol in children, new studies say. The two studies show the...

Every child has different bowel habits. Some children go more frequently than others, and some children typically have softer stools than others. A...

For decades now, the threat to children from Measles and Rubella has been more or less eliminated. The damaging effects from this very serious...

Caring for a child suffering from a sickness is one of the most challenging and sometimes heart-breaking situations any parent can find themselves in,...

There a lot of different things to worry about when you are raising your own children, but mental disorders in children are something that...

Statistics show that mental illness in children is a worryingly common phenomenon: as many as 20% of American children could have a diagnosable ailment. As many as 5 million children could have...

Recent reports of Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that doctors are not prescribing certain antibiotics for children to treat respiratory tract infections...

As every parent knows, it is sometimes hard to tell whether or not your child is sick enough to keep home from...