Jeff Ryan

The world's best-known pediatrician, by a country mile, is still Benjamin Spock, MD, the author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.

Profile of Charoltte Cowan, MD, a pediatrician who has written a series of children's books about common child maladies such as earaches and fevers.

Certain birth control pills seem to inhibit growth of bone mineral density in adolescent girls, a new study shows.

The FDA approved the H1N1 influenza vaccines from four different companies, ensuring a robust stockpile for the upcoming fu season.

How does a vaccine supply get doubled overnight? By finding out that the second dose isn't needed to get efficacy.

Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine approved for females, may soon be approved for males as well.

For CS Mott Children's Hospital new poll on schools, appropriately enough, it put out a report card.

The FDA has approved a new type of drug, an alpha-2A adrenergic receptor agonist, to treat ADHD in children as young as six.

Three cabinet offices have allied to fight the H1N1 virus, and they?ve recruited Elmo the Muppet to help.

FDA thinks its important for the health of both a pregnant mother and her fetus to learn about a drug?s adverse effects: but is it?

Two studies show the lifelong impact of sexuality and body image on young teenagers.

New research shows that there's a treatment for pediatric asthma that works swimmingly.

The two Kennedy siblings will be remembered for a lifetime of service for child health.

FDA has approved a new Haemophilus influenza type b conjugate vaccine as a booster dose for children between 15 months and four years of age.

A billion-dollar battle in Seattle is raging between a children's hospital and some locals over expansion plans.

A Las Vegas children's hospital resorts to staff cuts to make ends meet.

Contemporary Pediatrics asked its readers what they would say to President Obama regarding health care and pediatrics. No two responders hit the same points.

Postpartum depression has been linked to choosing bottle feeding over breastfeeding, according to an evolutionary psychologist?s research.

They're scared of hospitals and doctors. They're unsure about the treatments. They're not patients, though, but the patients' parents.

There are lots of dangers around the house than young kids don't about. Trouble is, some new parents don't about them either.

Where do most emergency department cases of poisoning get their poisons from? Not from under the sink: try the medicine cabinet.

Details the mental stresses facing the child of a military parent: moving, desployment, limited communication, and potential injury or death of the parent.

Thirteen year after 11 children enrolled in a clinical trial died, Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million in damages.

It's time to find who you really are, colic.

It?s a choice that no parent wants to make, or even consider. But in certain cases, the AAP now says, it can be an ethical choice.

Parents of a child who has a seizure and a fever may be concerned about epilepsy. They probably won?t be happy to learn it might be swine flu.

The president sat down with children's health leaders to discuss how to fix health care.

The dream of every generation is to have its next generation be better than the one before. That doesn?t appear to be happening, healthwise, for this current generation of American children.

The problems of child obesity made Bill Clinton and American Heart Association president Timothy Gardner work together for a solution. That solution, though, will take a lot more than two people.

The US Court of Special Claims has rules that three children with autism did not have it brought on by vaccination.