Cecilia Kang, The New York Times Visit YouTube Kids and typically it will not be long before promotions for junk food appear. The advertisements regularly show up in the form of funny contests and animated stories. From Our Advertisers In […]
Tara Haelle, WebMD Obese children may have difficulty resisting food because of how their brain is wired, a new study suggests. The small study found that food smells activated the parts of their brains related to impulsive behavior and obsessive-compulsive […]
NBC News An alarming trend is called a “Skittles Party.” The main focus of these parties is prescription pills. Teens raid their parents’ medicine cabinets and then dump the drugs in a bowl. They take handfuls of a random assortment […]
Samantha Costa, U.S. News & World Report Finding the perfect balance between rest and returning to regular activities can be a challenge for parents who have a child home from school with a concussion. The Centers for Disease Control and […]
Lisa Rapaport, Reuters Exposure to air pollution early in life may contribute to the development of asthma in childhood and adolescence, a European study suggests. Researchers followed more than 14,000 children from birth through ages 14 to 16 and found […]
NBC News More than 8 percent of children with cancer have unsuspected genetic mutations that could run in their families, researchers reported on Wednesday. These mutations not only put the children at risk of future cancers, but can mean their […]
Steven Reinberg, WebMD An experimental drug shows promise as a treatment for a common and potentially serious illness known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Currently, there is no treatment or vaccine for RSV, which can be deadly for infants and […]
Yvette Brazier, Medical News Today Lazy eye, also called amblyopia, remains the most common cause of visual impairment in children. Amblyopia is poor vision in an eye that did not develop normally during early childhood. It can occur when one […]
Maggie Fox, NBC News American kids are being hurt and killed by the spread of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” pediatricians said Monday. The World Health Organization cautioned that people around the world still don’t understand much about antibiotic resistance, what it means […]
Drew Wood, Fatherly Ever look at your kid’s morning bowl of Cheerios (or their charred Pop Tart, no one’s judging you) and wonder what parents around the world feed their own kids for breakfast? It turns out, all sorts of […]
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