With regard to child health, the US consistently ranks below other wealthy nations. Since the 1980s, the child mortality rate in the US has exceeded those of 19 developed nations—including Australia, ...

(Reuters Health) - Children’s liquid medicines should only be measured in metric units to avoid overdoses common with teaspoons and tablespoons, U.S. pediatricians say. Tens of thousands of kids wind ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon aims to make social and emotional health care for young children more available with a new metric. The Oregon Health Authority has adopted the Child-Level Social Emotional ...

Ancient Babylonian scribes learned to record numerical tables on clay tablets. If a schoolroom or library burned, the tablets baked hard, and might survive for millennia. Several such tablets are ...

In her 2014 book Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, journalist Brigid Schulte examines our culture of busyness and what should be done about it. In addition to recommending ...

Some 70,000 children are seen in emergency departments each year in the United States as a result of unintentional medication overdoses, sparking a push by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Patients are often told to give their child a teaspoon or 2 ½ teaspoons of a medication like Tylenol or ibuprofen or an antibiotic. The problem is, some parents will use a regular ...