Ask any parent — little kids have a tendency to touch everything in sight. Their hands glide blissfully from doorknob to toy to nose to shoe to dog to mouth. So imagine the biological brew stirred up and shared when dozens of germy toddlers gather together. Ick! That’s why the H1N1 flu virus, also...

Immunization rates in developing countries remain significantly lower than those in industrialized nations. Nearly 2 million children under five years of age die from pneumonia each year—more than from HIV/AIDS, measles, and malaria combined. With World Pneumonia Day, November 2, 2009, GiveVaccines.org...

Halloween is quickly approaching and many shoppers are already looking for the newest costumes and decorations. In fact, in 2008, there were 36 million potential “trick-or-treaters” between the ages of 5 and 13. Despite the downturn in the economy, the National Retail federation estimated last...

The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program should adopt a new set of nutrient targets and standards for menu planning, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The recommended targets and standards would update and improve the programs’ abilities to meet children’s...

An expert panel of nationally recognized pediatric liver specialists convened by the Hepatitis B Foundation is calling for more consistent monitoring and referral of children chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). The panels recommendations for pediatricians and other primary care practitioners...

Speech-Language Pathologist Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP, a leading speech-language pathologist, and Baby Buggy held a Say and Play Communication Enrichment Conference on April 21, 2009 at the Child Center of New York Sonia Strumpf Clinic. The conference was arranged by Nura Poursharif, the Program Director...