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A new federal advisory panel on autism has released its first guidelines for autism research.

The trigger that prompts alcohol consumption in young men may be nothing more than seeing others do it on TV.

On Monday, President Obama nominated Kansas governor Katherine Sebelius to head up the Department of Health and Human Services.

The health of the younger adult has not improved over time, according to a new federal report.

Children don?t have to be called four-eyes to feel self-conscious about their glasses.

As a result of misinformation or a lack of knowledge about healthy infant sleep, many parents and their babies suffer needlessly-and no one gets enough sleep. A baby’s sleepwake cycles are likely to appear unpredictable to new parents. This, coupled with conflicting advice about infant sleep, can lead to parents simply letting the baby sleep “whenever.” In such a situation, the baby often ends up with chronically insufficient sleep, which, if left unchecked, can spiral into persistent night awakenings and bedtime resistance.

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A collection of resource pages from children's hospitals and related institutions about sleep issues in children.

A top ten list of 2008 stories, a study of pulse oximetry's usefulness, and a review of if teens are oversharing risky info on their social networking pages.

Dr. Michael S. Jellniek reivews a 1984 article from Dr. Morris Green on pediatric interview technqiues, finding that not much has changed regarding how to talk to kids and parents.

A 4-year-old is brought in to doctor's office due to monomorphous bumps that appeared two months earlier

Head Start representatives are pleased with the $2.1 billion increased funding going to their proejct, which they say will almost entirely go to needy families to better the lives of children.

A one-year-old is brought into the ER with a head tilt and gradually worsens over a few days with ptosis of right eyelid and inability to walk.

Discussion of the importance of the eMR

Injury-related emergency department visits involving children under age 15 totaled approximately 7.1 million, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Children who experience sensorineural hearing loss are often found to also have vision issues, according to new research reported in the February issue of of the Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

Mismatched cord blood may be a viable option for children waiting for a bone marrow transplant.

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.

It turns out the benefits of cholesterol-lowering medications may only reach a minor segment of the adolescent population (age 12 to 17), according to research in the March 3 issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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.

There are more than 50 million children in the US, most of whom receive some sort of medication during their childhood. That may be one reason niche pharmacies are becoming more popular.

Don't invest too much stock in the notion that preschoolers are always active and on the go, new research points out.

Dosing requirements for infant rotavirus vaccines were modified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, enabling more babies to be immunized.

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

Depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and phobias are more common among pediatric kidney transplant patients than among healthy young persons, according to online research.

A landmark 1988 Lancet article featured exaggerated and falsified claims, to make the connection seem stronger than the study data suggested, according to the Times of London.

At what age should the cervical cancer vaccine for women not be used?