Today's children are tomorrow's rulers, leaders, policy makers, doctors, scientists, teachers, sports heroes, successful intellectuals, productive citizens and of course parents. The capability of ch [...]
It is World Pneumonia Day on Friday and to celebrate it, several functions will be conducted in the city of Sangam, where doctors will spread awareness about the disease and urge parents to safeguard their children from it. As per d [...]
Are higher income parents avoiding child vaccinations because of celebrities? According to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a non-profit health care organization, childhood vaccination rates in the U.S. in 2009 [...]
Proposals to change the way hospitals are paid will mean a "top-up" fund which is paid to specialist paediatric centres would be slashed by two thirds. The head of one children's hospitals said if the plans went ahead, the [...]
Our environment and our genetics are the focus of a new national study involving children. The National Institutes of Health is funding the National Children's Study which is expected to be the longest long term study of childhood de [...]
Kids health and fitness take center stage on Saturday in the capital city. A children's health festival at the Mississippi Ag. and Forestry Museum offered lots of fun ways to exercise and fight obesity. There were obstacle cour [...]
Polk County will start enrolling eligible women for a national study on children's health next month. The National Children's Study is the nation's largest long-term study on children's health. It aims to track 100,000 ch [...]
October is National Children’s Health Month, but we really shouldn’t need a designated month to make us more aware of the health of our children. Is my child eating properly? Is my child getting enough exercise? Is my ch [...]
Donal Walsh, Chairman of the Children's University Hospital Temple Street, has restated his organisation's support for building the new National Children's Hospital adjacent to the Mater Hospital in Dublin's city centre. [...]
Although most Canadian parents are concerned about their children’s mental health, they cannot find a definitive source of information to learn more about the related issues, according to a survey released just before Mental Health [...]
Members of the media should contact Kathleen Morgan, chair of the Family and Community Health Sciences Department of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, at (732) 932-5000, ext. 604, or Peter Gillies, director of the New Jersey Institute [...]
Our kids are too fat and too passive. They spend too much time watching television or playing video games. They don't eat the right foods and use tobacco products. The end result? Too many children with too little energy, too little [...]
It’s been an exhilarating week for parents, kids and pediatricians like me! On September 23rd, several provisions from the Affordable Care Act went into effect that will immediately improve the health and well being of our children [...]
For the third year in a row, Louisiana has earned a "D" on the Children's Health Report Card from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Associate Executive Director Peter Katzmarzyk says that although there have been n [...]