Child deaths related to cold medications are on the FDA’s hot plate right now, as the federal agency is determined to see why some kids have died as a outcome of taking normal, over-the-counter cough medications. Overdoses of cold medications, unfortunately, have happened in greater frequency in...

US colleges and universities are experiencing a surge in the number of students seeking mental health services, says a report from a meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA). And while most schools do have some mental health services, they do not offer programs specifically geared...

If you think young children spend their summers running around and keeping trim, think again. A new study finds that kindergartners and first-graders put on more weight during summer vacations than during the school year. Children are eating more and exercising less when they are out of the classroom...

Over a 13-year period almost 1.6 million US children needed to visit the emergency room due to soccer-related injuries, according to a report in The American Journal of Sports Medicine. The study included injuries that occurred during both organized and non-organized soccer play. Past research on soccer...

Girls are most likely to gain weight early in adolescence, between the ages of nine and 12, according to a report in The Journal of Pediatrics. The health consequences of being overweight can be evident in girls as young as nine, all of which points to the need to tailor prevention efforts to ever younger...

Sleep problems do not just plague teenagers who burn the candle at both ends or adults anxious about paying their bills. Even preschoolers can have trouble sleeping, and experts suspect the main difficulty for children ages one to five is simply a lack of restful slumber, according to a study reported...

  Two new studies spotlight both the difficulty parents often have in keeping children away from the TV and also the potential health rewards for children in cutting down on TV and other media, according to the journal Pediatrics. For example, one study found that nine-to-12-year-olds who were barred...