Children's Health

Read how one sports league found a unique way to enure good sportsmanship on the field and in the stands.

Zoster ("Shingles") is contagious only to those people who have not had chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine. The course of this disease is usually mild and the prognosis good.

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

Sometimes good kids can be bad sports. Here are the words you need to talk with your child about sportsmanship.

Our expert scolds a parent for his attitude towards his son.

Our expert recommends a professional therapist for an angry five-year-old who is threatening suicide.

It's possible for your nine-month-old to catch chickenpox from her vaccinated sister, but not very likely.

A yearly flu shot is the best way to protect yourself against the types of influenza expected each year.

A germ from the Herpes family called Epstein-Barr Virus causes infectious mononucleosis. This virus is spread through the saliva (hence the term "kissing disease"); only occasionally by contact with blood.

By Gavin de Becker

A safety expert offers advice about how to best protect your child fromdanger or violence.

Read what you should do when your child's coach uses humiliating penalties.

A mother seeks advice on how to reassure her young son that his dad is safe when traveling.

Abdominal pain is a very common complaint in children. Learn how to assess the significance of stomachaches.

Get information about toxic synovitis, an inflammation of the hip joint that occurs rather suddenly in young children.

Mumps is caused by a virus, and it is passed on in the same way as a cold. Read more information about this virus.

Punishing and/or bribing your son to force him to play a sport is not going to work.

Hemangiomas can more easily be observed by your child's pediatrician and a referral made if the diagnosis is in question, if the hemangiomas are medically problematic, or if you are in need of further reassurance.

The symptoms of Osgood-Schlatter disease include pain over the bump just below your knee cap, usually worsened by exercise that involves repeated bending and straightening of the knee and by the direct force on that area.

Although there is an increased risk of post-vaccination seizures after DTP, there is no evidence that pertussis immunization causes permanent brain damage or epilepsy.