Kathryn Foxhall

A number of studies show that some school-based interventions for the prevention of childhood obesity can be effective, says a draft review from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the key federal agency charged with improving quality and effectiveness in health care.

We live in a time of such potential for vaccine development that it's difficult to know where to put resources.

The Federal Employee Health Benefits Program is moving its considerable influence behind the concept of the medical home.

Through an intense process, a subcommittee advising the federal government has selected 24 areas by which to measure healthcare quality for children covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Communities that use science-based approaches to problem behaviors in adolescents, including alcohol and tobacco use, are more likely to see positive results.

Communities that use science-based approaches to problem behaviors in adolescents, including alcohol and tobacco use, are more likely to see positive results.

The Food and Drug Administration weighs in about whether to approve schizophrenia medication for adolescents.

The federal government is changing the recommendations for vaccinations: what should the new ones be, and how will the changes affect your practice?

The controversy over whether baby bottles containing BPA should be banned continues in an advisory assessment of an FDA draft report.

FDA to ban OTC asthma inhalers by 2010 and a look at how OTC drugs affect teens