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You may be excited and anxious about the impending labor and childbirth. You may also wonder how you can help. Learning about the birth process can help you know what to expect. Following the suggestions here can help ease you and the mother through this exciting time.

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a disease that causes your body’s immune system to attack its own cells and tissues. It can affect your joints and nervous system. It can affect blood vessels. And it can affect organs, such as the skin, kidneys, lungs, and brain. It can cause rashes, fatigue, pain, and fever. Severe lupus can cause harm to organs and other serious problems, including death.

The health care team will carefully watch your baby's blood sugar level in the neonatal intensive care unit. If your baby's blood sugar is too high or too low, treatment will bring it back under control.

Meconium is the sticky stool in the intestine at birth. When it gets into a baby’s lungs, the airways in the lungs become swollen. Here's what you need to know.

A colonoscopy is a test that lets a health care provider look inside the colon and rectum. A sigmoidoscopy is a shorter form of this test. Read on for details.

Read on for details about common lab tests used to diagnose problems with the digestive system in children.

Bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic are called multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). MDROs mainly affect people in hospitals and long-term care facilities. But they are also spreading among healthy children and adults. Read on to learn more.

Your child has a latex allergy if they're sensitive to natural rubber latex. Read on to learn about symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and more.

Lichen planus is a chronic skin disease. It's a rash that can develop anywhere on the body. But it most often occurs on the wrists, arms, legs, scalp, and genitals.