Children's Health

"Injuries range from facial abrasions to broken bones to serious head injuries," said Dr. Amy Drendel of the Children's Hospital Wisconsin.

It's natural to want to spoil your kids during Christmas. But is it damaging to overindulge your child and should there be a gift limit?

Early data shows gaps in vaccinations among children of different races, leading experts to question if enough public data will exist to help fill the holes.

As times change, the rules of parenting shift. Still, classic parenting tips never go out of style, including the 11 we found.

He was arrested after police received reports from mothers that a man was taking pictures their daughters.

Drugstore chains will begin inoculating children ages 5 to 11 this weekend with doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.

The Biden administration has begun shipping out millions of doses as they expect the CDC's approval for children ages 5-11 to be innoculated against COVID.

The risks of COVID for kids may be higher than previously believed. But many parents are reluctant to get their child vaccinated—even as FDA approval seems imminent.

"Should the FDA and CDC authorize the vaccine, we will be ready to get shots in arms," said the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator.

"We have never seen children suffering from COVID complications like Fabiana did," said one pediatric consultant.

A mom has warned parents to check their baby's toes and fingers after a strand of hair got wrapped around her son's digit, ending in surgery.

"We expect many more African children to be protected from malaria and grow into healthy adults," said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO's Africa director.

As a community, as a nation, we are responsible for the safety and well-being of all the children in our country. All children are our children.

"I want to warn parents about the dangers of their children playing with magnets. I want to reinforce how dangerous these magnets really are," the girl's mother said.

As we begin to vaccinate children, who also have the highest rates of needle phobia, we must adopt a more inclusive approach to health care that considers different peoples' needs and acknowledges the problems of pain and fear involved in vaccine injections.

Figures from England show next to no children under the age of 18 died from COVID-19 over three week period.

Addison had recently undergone colon surgery and her recovery had initially appeared to be going well.

"If we open schools up without social distancing, without vaccination, without masks, we are going to see problems," said Dr. Barbara Pahud.

We need to help young people better understand their bodies so they may actually love them—from their brains to their bellies.

We're failing our kids. And in large measure, it's because—at a political level—we don't connect our policy priorities with what's good for them.

The former "American Idol" finalist has yet to be reunited with her two babies who were taken by Child Protection Services in Florida in March and August.

"More than a third of our cases of hospitalized children due to COVID-19 have required some form of critical care," said Dr. James Versalovic.

The state has recorded record-breaking COVID figures multiple times over the past month, as the Delta variant continues to spread across the country.

There were two deaths at Le Bonheur in Memphis over the weekend as the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads through the entire country.

COVID hospitalized 32 children per day in Florida during the final week of July, according to CDC data.

Half of the children admitted to one hospital were "perfectly healthy" before contracting the virus, a doctor said.

The virus, which can live on hard surfaces for hours, has been spreading this summer in the U.S.—an unusual season for it to do so.

CDC statistics showed that between 1998 and 2010, 14 battery-related deaths in children were recorded, with button batteries involved in 12 of the fatalities.

A Winnipeg-based epidemiologist told local media the death marks the 13th coronavirus fatality in a person under the age of 19 in Canada.

The child is now "unable to speak, [swallow], open both eyes, or move his arms and support his own body," says a GoFundMe set up in his family's name.