A new experimental drug is showing remarkable promise for children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy.

A type of personalized cell therapy seems to have reset the immune system and eased severe symptoms in eight children and adolescents with autoimmune disorders 1. Chimeric-antigen-receptor (CAR) ...

First Lady Melania Trump visited children with rare and serious diseases at The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Valentine’s Day. Mrs. Trump joined the children, their ...

Children associated handwriting with physical fatigue and digital writing with technical difficulties, such as struggling to locate keys," Dr. Malpique explained. Children's comments offered ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children be vaccinated against 18 diseases, more than the U.S. government directs after it overhauled its schedule. The doctors group, which released its ...

The FDA has approved copper histidinate (Zycubo, Sentynl Therapeutics) injection as the first and only treatment to date, for Menkes disease in pediatric patients, the agency announced. The treatment ...

Sandra Prokofi is on life support following the accident last week Go Fund Me; Getty A mom of six kids is on life support after breaking her spine in a snowboarding accident at a Colorado resort on ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced an overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule, reducing the number of vaccines recommended for children. On Monday, the CDC ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine ...

Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations. By Apoorva Mandavilli Federal health officials on ...