Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in ...

One study found that between 1965 and 2012 the amount of time parents in rich countries spent with their children doubled.

Many families take for granted the ritual of taking a newborn baby home, car seat and curated swaddle blankets in tow, just a few days after delivery. But as critical care pediatricians, we care for ...

Insurance companies will still be required to fully cover all childhood vaccines on the CDC schedule, including those now ...

Being a parent raises so many urgent, concrete questions—Will this movie cause nightmares? Is this enough sunscreen? Where are the Cheez-Its?—that the abstract ones often slip beneath the surface, ...

Severe secondary infections, including brain and lung abscesses, mark one of the worst respiratory seasons in nearly 20 years ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 28, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Two million Americans served in Afghanistan and Iraq. And at least 600,000 have been ...

It's been more than five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, although millions of Americans, including children, are still affected by it today. More than one million Americans died due to ...

When Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2002, I was twenty-two and deep in one of those unfortunate periods during which a young writer wants to be serious but doesn’t quite know what ...

Failure to Protect is a collaboration of CBS News Chicago and the CBS News Data Team, and examines the victims affected by domestic violence in Chicago and the systems that failed them. Editor’s Note: ...