Marshall Health Network-Rivers Health Emergency Department has earned the Always Ready for Kids certification. This statewide designation recognizes hospitals that demonstrate excellence in pediatric emergency care.

A multiyear community asthma program on the Navajo Nation increased asthma-related care and awareness among families, even as the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically disrupted health care and school systems.

The American Academy of Pediatrics sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, seeking to block nearly $12 million in cuts to the group.

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to improve children’s health. But his sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule will do the opposite, health experts warn.

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

The federal government has frozen about $1 billion in funds meant for social services and child care in Illinois, according to Gov. JB Pritzker.

"Aren't they a little young for that?" This is a question I used to hear regularly from parents when I'd recommend strength training for the kids I worked with, whose ages ranged from 6 to 18 years old, in youth sports. During my four years as a strength ...