Pediatricians said parents should not panic over a rise in the number of herpangina cases in the capital.

A government audit confirms many of the findings of USA TODAY's 2012 "Ghost Factories" investigation and faults the Environmental Protection Agency for lacking criteria and time limits to screen mo

Nearly every other school in Israel is exposed to excess levels of cancerous electric radiation, it was revealed during a discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Tuesday.

A chemical plant in central China's Hunan province was shut down on Sunday on suspicion of being linked to the lead poisoning of more than 300 local children, following a report on Saturday about b

THE 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) has highlighted improvements in key health indicators, especially a decline in childhood deaths and stalled progress in reproductive health.

Neonatal deaths still remain a challenge in the country due to lack of adequate neonatal care facilities at primary healthcare level and low institutional delivery.

ROME: More than three million children under the age of five die annually of malnutrition, the UN food agency and World Health Organisation said on Thursday, urging governments to tackle the proble

Most fatalities are children below 10 years, hundreds admitted to hospitals

Dreaded Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) that has taken toll of 25 children in the last fortnight in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur continue to baffle the experts who have for the first time noticed absence

Britain's child poverty plans are "doomed" to fail as 3.5 million children will be in poverty by 2020, says a watchdog chaired by former health secretary Alan Milburn.