A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived ...

Diana Keys knew that her problem was 'physical', despite doctors dismissing it as stress caused by her recent divorce.

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Malnutrition is on the rise in the UK and our children's life chances are at risk, says Barnardo's chief executive.

Twenty-five years after the US declared the disease eradicated, measles is making a comeback. How would the response to an outbreak normally look? When there is a disease outbreak that requires ...

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A coronial inquest examining a six-week-old boy’s death has heard evidence that X-rays showed his ribs were fractured and refractured, and he did not suffer from the disease rickets. Giving ...

“There is no way that those rib fractures on the left, those two that we have been talking about, are related to rickets. That is a direct trauma,” he told counsel assisting Jeffrey Hunte ...

A coronial inquest examining a six-week-old boy’s death has heard evidence that X-rays showed his ribs were fractured and ...

The son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Princess Julie of Nassau, Prince Frederik, has died in Paris the age of 22 due to a rare genetic disorder – POLG Mitochondrial disease. Frederik was ...

So we took them to Dr. Aaron Milstone, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. What age do kids get vaccinated for measles? Most kids start ...

Venous reflux disease (VRD) occurs when veins do not properly return blood to the heart. Health experts refer to it as chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). VRD most commonly affects the legs and ...