Children's Health

If misused, Tylenol and other brands of acetaminophen have the potential for fatal injury to a toddler's liver.

Scarlet fever is simply a "strep throat" with a rash.

Warts are not uncommon in children. Find out when they should be treated.

Pediatricians have different styles of managing ear infections, which are one of the more common infections in childhood.

Once your child is exposed to chickenpox, you won't know whether she has it for at least 10 days and for as long as 21 days.

Read our expert's analysis of a six-year-old's nighttime wakefulness.

When a child has this condition, he loses the bumps on the tongue that give it the normal rough appearance.

Meningitis is a disease that is passed from person to person in close contact with mouth and nasal secretions.

A mother seeks some guidelines for helping her obese nine-year-old lose weight.

More than 10 percent of infants and children do wheeze at some point in their childhood.

What can a mother do to help her daughter eat right and get some exercise?

Although much research is being done, no one knows what causes the skin condition known as vitiligo.

A mother asks how she and her husband can motivate their daughter to get to the next level in sports.

There is not an exact age that is appropriate for switching a child to an "adult" doctor.

A parent asks our expert, "How would you handle a nine-year-old boy who is an incredibly talented baseball player but has a bad attitude?"

Hepatitis A usually lasts several weeks, but prolonged or relapsing disease can last as long as 6 months.

Today's kids are being exposed to far more anxiety-provoking information than past generations.

The best treatment for eczema is to control the environmental things that irritate the disease, such as avoiding contact with things known to trigger itching and scratching.