More Medication & Children News

• U.S. Kids Take More Psychotropic Drugs Than Europeans

  September 24 (HealthDay News) -- American children are three times more likely to be prescribed ...

• Acetaminophen Linked to Childhood Asthma

  Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Children given acetaminophen during the first year of life to ...

• Newer Drugs No Better Than Older Ones for Childhood Schizophrenia

  September 15 (HealthDay News) -- Newer antipsychotic medications are no better at relieving symptoms of ...

• Most U.S. Kids Getting Recommended Vaccinations

  September 4 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of American children are getting their recommended ...

• Even Kids with Known Allergies Can Be Safely Vaccinated

  September 4 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccine safety experts say that almost all kids who are ...

• Kids' Fever Time Cut Using Ibuprofen First

  September 3 (HealthDay News) -- Fever in young children can be reduced for a longer ...

• Vaccines Seek to Offer Cradle-to-Grave Protection

  August 29 (HealthDay News) -- Immunization shots used to be the realm of the young. Babies ...

• Spoonful of Sugar Really Might Help Medicine Go Down

  August 21 (HealthDay News) -- If your child won't take medicine and shuns broccoli at ...

• OTC Cold Medicines Sending Children to Emergency Rooms

  August 4 (HealthDay News) -- A significant percentage of small children going to emergency rooms ...

• Drug May Ease Symptoms of Juvenile Arthritis

  July 15 (HealthDay News) -- Children suffering from juvenile arthritis who haven't had luck with ...

• Statins Show Little Benefit for Kids with Learning Disorder

  July 15 (HealthDay News) -- New evidence suggests that a cholesterol-lowering drug widely prescribed for ...

• Pediatricians Recommend Cholesterol Drugs for Some Kids

  July 7 (HealthDay News) -- In a further concession to the impact of the childhood ...

• ADHD Might Raise Kids' Obesity Risk

  July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at a 50 ...

• Lawsuit Alleging Mercury-Autism Link to Begin

  May 12 (HealthDay News) -- A preservative containing mercury and once widely used in childhood ...

• Some Weight-Loss Drugs Might Disrupt Brain Growth in Kids

  May 7 (HealthDay News) -- A new class of weight-loss drugs that suppresses appetite by ...

• Corticosteroids of Little Use Against Childhood Meningitis

  May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Corticosteroids are increasingly used to help treat children with bacterial ...

• Measles Outbreak Rises to 64 Cases, Most Since 2001

  May 1 (HealthDay News) -- There were 64 confirmed cases of measles in the United ...

• 1 in 4 U.S. Toddlers Improperly Vaccinated

  April 29 (HealthDay News) -- New numbers show that more than a quarter of American ...

• Measurements Poor for Assessing Clinical Trials with Children

  April 29 (HealthDay News) -- Few studies consider the appropriate measurements for assessing drug clinical ...