Study: Big gaps in foster vs. traditional homes - USA Today
Children in foster care live in poorer, more crowded and less educated homes than kids in other families, often taking them from one disadvantaged ...

Race, ethnicity might influence psychiatric diagnosis in children’s ERs - Newswise
New research finds that minority children and adolescents who visit the pediatric emergency department more often receive diagnoses of severe mental ...

Child cancer survivors face heart risks later - MSNBC
Children who survive cancer face a much greater risk of heart problems later in life than their brothers and sisters who did not have cancer, new ...

Recalls: Carbon monoxide alarms, baby rattles - The New York Times
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FDA defends safety of baby bottle chemical - MSNBC
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday said it sees no reason to tell consumers to stop using products such as baby bottles made ...

Too much water raises seizure risk in babies - Newswise
It’s a recurrent summer-time scenario in the pediatric emergency room and doctors from Johns Hopkins Children’s are sounding the alarm on ...

More than 2 million U.S. teens depressed - MSNBC
More than 2 million U.S. teenagers have suffered a serious bout of depression in the past year, including nearly 13 percent of girls, according to a ...

For the disabled, age 18 brings difficult choices - The New York Times
As medical advances have allowed patients who might have died as children to survive into adulthood, the patients are falling into a void in a health ...

Test-tube baby genes may predict survival in womb, study shows - Bloomberg
Doctors may be able to make in-vitro fertilization more reliable and stop multiple births by analyzing the genetic make-up of so-called test-tube ...

Group fears step taken toward ‘designer babies’ - MSNBC
News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it’s a step ...