If you're heading over the river and through to the woods to grandmother's house, make sure grandma has put her medications far out of reach from the little ones.

It may not just be chicken nuggets and french fries adding too much weight to children's waistlines. The very air pregnant women breathe might play a small role too.

The joke is that experienced parents don't clean off a pacifier after it falls on the floor. A few extra germs just build the immune system, right? Well, they may be on to something.

Any parent knows that children are fearless - they will run or climb anywhere without noting dangers around them. But fortunately, accidents are killing fewer kids than ever in the U.S.

Moms spend so much energy focusing on their children's needs that it becomes easy to neglect their own needs. But taking care of mom also helps take better care of the little ones.

The U.S. government aims to reduce the childhood obesity rate from the current 16.9 percent to 14.6 percent by 2020. But what would that require? The answer might surprise you.

Although past research has found links between adults' vitamin D levels and brain power, less was known about whether the nutrient helps kids in the same way. It appears that it can't.

Is there a better way to teach language and reading to students who are struggling? Some teaching methods may be more affective than others for students who have difficulty with reading.

If you really need that cup of joe , it's okay, Mom. Whether you're pregnant or breastfeeding, your coffee habit won’t come back to haunt you with increased nighttime baby wakings .

Renowned pediatrician and medical pioneer Dr. Leila Denmark, one of the world's oldest women and a co-inventor of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine, died Sunday at the age of 114 of natural causes.