Single parents are far more likely to have overweight children, according to a new Australian study revealed Thursday.
Children undergoing complex imaging tests like computed tomography (CT) scans for heart problems may have higher cancer risks over their lifetime
Children exposed to pet dander, roach allergens and a wide variety of household bacteria in the first year of life are less likely to develop allergies, wheezing and asthma, U.S. researchers said Friday.
Children are overweight because of homework and parents should ban it from their homes, according to a controversial child care expert.
Two preschools at the center of the antiviral drug scandal in Xi'an, northwest China's Shanxi Province, have had their licenses revoked, the local government confirmed on Saturday.
Tetramine, a banned neurotoxic rodenticide, caused the food poisoning that killed two children at a kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said on Thursday.
More cases of medicines being administered illegally to preschoolers are emerging in China, as the crisis of confidence in kindergarten managers expands.
The principal and vice principal of a kindergarten in central China's Hubei Province were detained on Tuesday for illegally giving children anti-fever drugs, local authorities said.
For the past several days, life has been awash with anxiety, despair and anger for the hundreds of parents whose children attended two kindergartens caught in an antiviral drug scandal.
The health indexes of 65 children who attended two kindergartens in China accused of illegally administering antiviral drugs were found to be "abnormal" during a health examination, local government told Xinhua on Sunday.
Xiao Lin went to school to pick up his academic report alone, while most of his schoolmates were accompanied by their parents.
An eastern Chinese city has offered free services to escort the children of migrant workers home as the world's largest annual human migration began ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Thousands of elderly people and children were hospitalized this week in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City due to the recent cold spell that has seen temperatures drop below 18 degrees Celsius.
A Chinese court on Wednesday decided the producer of a popular animation was partly to blame for injuries to two children when another child imitated an episode of the TV series.
Anthony Lake, the executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), said on Monday that 2.3 million children have been affected by the vicious conflict in the Central African Republic (CAF) country.
Nearly 230 million children under the age of five have not had their births officially recorded, excluding them from education, health care and social security, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Wednesday.
A new report suggests a quarter of New Zealand's children are living in poverty and 10 percent are in severe poverty.
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