Because they are still growing, children are more susceptible to sports injuries. Half of those injuries could be prevented with proper safety gear, safer playing environments, and established safety rules.

Because most accidental child strangulations, chokings, and suffocations happen in the home, it's important to carefully childproof your residence.

The common cold is one of the most common illnesses in children. Most children will have at least 6 to 8 colds a year.

Chemotherapy is the use of medicines to treat cancer. The medicines can cause an inflammation of the lining of the mouth. The mouth is lined with mucous membranes. When these are inflamed, it’s called mouth mucositis.

Croup is a common infection in children. It causes swelling in the upper part of the airway in the neck. It causes a barking cough, with or without fever. And it may cause problems breathing.

Because babies born by cesarean may have difficulty clearing some of the lung fluid and mucus, extra suctioning of the nose, mouth, and throat are often needed.

Your milk contains just the right balance of nutrients in a form most easily used by your baby's immature body systems.

Detailed information on how breastmilk is made for breastfeeding.

Diabetes is a condition in which the body can't make enough insulin, or can't use insulin normally. Insulin is a hormone. It helps sugar (glucose) in the blood get into cells of the body to be used as fuel. When glucose can’t enter the cells, it builds up in the blood. This is called high blood sugar (hyperglycemia).

Roseola is a contagious viral illness. It causes a high fever and then a rash that develops as the fever goes away.