According to a CDC report, 1 in 5 children ages 3 to 17 has a mental illness, and an article in Bloomberg News reports that $247 billion are spent each year treating these patients. This figure is increasing “along with the number of kids hospitalized for mood disorders, substance abuse and other...

New research in The Journal of the American Medical Association evaluates whether mortality rates for children and adolescents beginning dialysis improved between 1990 and 2010. Researchers found “Crude mortality rates during dialysis treatment were higher among children younger than 5 years at the...

Immune stimulation by microbes transferred from parents to infants via pacifiers is thought to reduce risk of allergy development, and a new study in Pediatrics investigates whether pacifier cleaning practices affect the risk. Researchers found that “Children whose parents ‘cleaned’ their pacifier by...