For years, scientists questioned whether a widely used flu drug or the influenza virus itself was responsible for rare but ...

As Nigerians prepare for the festive season, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday urged citizens to celebrate responsibly and prioritise their health.The NCDC also warned ...

Caitlin Rivers: These vaccines protect kids and communities. We have some of the world’s best public health and vaccine ...

A local family is helping children and other families at CHKD smile this holiday season in honor of their 10-year-old son, Joshua Peck. Matthew and Christina Peck began ...

MIAMI – Florida's surgeon general wants to do away with all state vaccine mandates. But the first step in his plan targets ...

One local woman gives back after Riley Children’s Hospital saved her son’s life. Sue McCallum is the owner of Kadel’s ...

Doctors have warned that removing mandates and leaving decisions fully up to parents will erode vaccination rates further, ...

A simple combination of blood and urine tests may allow many infants with fevers (febrile) to safely avoid lumbar punctures (spinal taps), according to new findings from a major international study ...

Meningitis — an inflammation of the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord — remains associated with a case-fatality rate of nearly 30% in children with sickle cell disease (SCD), ...

The research, published today in The Lancet Global Health, are together the largest analysis of febrile non-traumatic coma in children on the African continent to date. Fever and coma is a common ...

Compared with no dexamethasone treatment, early administration of dexamethasone in children with pneumococcal meningitis lowered 30-day all-cause mortality by 50%, a new study showed. Overall ...