Latest about children
Antibiotics growing gravely ineffective for childhood infections
A study found that many common antibiotics were less than 50% effective at treating serious bacterial infections in children and newborn babies in the Asia-Pacific.
Eating just 2 cannabis gummies can put small kids at risk of toxic effects
A study of a Colorado hospital network pinpoints the threshold of THC exposure that poses a danger to young children.
RSV: Symptoms, treatments, antibodies and vaccines
In healthy children and adults, RSV typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but it can cause more serious disease in infants, young kids and older people.
Rare gold coins and cremated infants were possible sacrificial gifts to the ancient gods of Carthage
Five gold coins unearthed from a temple in ancient Carthage depict the goddess Tanit and were likely left by wealthy worshippers alongside burials as an offering to deities.
Australia's 'worst female serial killer' freed after her children's deadly gene mutations come to light
New research has revealed that the children of Kathleen Folbigg each had genetic mutations that could explain their deaths.
Doctors identify never-before-seen genetic mutations that led to 2 children's insatiable hunger
Two children developed insatiable hunger and severe obesity due to rare genetic mutations, their doctors reported.
300,000-year-old footprints reveal extinct humans went on a lakeside family outing among giant elephants and rhinos
Footprints belonging to Homo heidelbergensis adults and children suggest that these human relatives foraged and played on the shores of a lake where prehistoric beasts gathered to drink.
In rare attack, dingo repeatedly bites and holds girl underwater. (Luckily she survived.)
The 6-year-old girl is in a stable condition following the attack by an untagged male dingo while she was swimming on K'gari, or Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia.
