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.

A new study has uncovered the ways different types of play are linked to children's social abilities and brain activity. The ...

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, ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Children’s announced the launch of its first pediatric helicopter. It's a major milestone. Texas ...

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 ...