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Learn about children's health including common illnesses, injuries, growth and development, family health, and community health. A child's overall health is more than their physical, emotional, and mental health. It also includes the health of their family as a whole, their community and their environment. Read More.

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. Read More.

About one in 15 people reported the "phantom smells" that didn't go away. Read More.

The cheap painkiller seems to help the immune system detect and destroy cancers. Read More.

A ‘chasm of misunderstanding and miscommunication’ is often experienced between clinicians and patients, leading to autoimmune diseases such as lupus and vasculitis being wrongly diagnosed as psychiatric or psychosomatic conditions, with a profound and lasting impact on patients, researchers have found. Read More.

Chronic health conditions are taking a major, hidden toll on the U.S. workforce's lives and productivity, according to a new national poll by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation. Read More.

A Minnesota family is sharing their young daughter's experience with febrile seizures in hopes of reducing the alarm for other parents. Read More.

In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that measles was eliminated in the United States. The disease became rare after a successful vaccination campaign in the 1960s. Read More.

During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the First Lady and I offer our heartfelt prayers to every American battling the horrific disease of Read More.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a contagious respiratory infection causing severe coughing fits and a "whooping" sound when breathing in. Read More.

"'Go take a break' is a love language." Read More.

Each hour a person spends squinting into a smartphone or staring at a screen increases their risk of nearsightedness, a new evidence review suggests. Read More.

Texas state health officials have confirmed an outbreak of 48 measles cases in West Texas in recent weeks. Read More.

For patients with a genetic predisposition to AMD, age may increase this risk. Read More.

A clinical trial shows that people who were considered by medical researchers to report signs of alcohol use disorder drank significantly less after taking semaglutide for two months, compared to people with similar alcohol habits who didn’t take the drug. Read More.