February is National Heart Month and a good time to remember that heart disease is usually viewed as a disease that affects adults, but the causes of heart ...

Carter said the ultrasound had "reduced our anxiety with blood tests" and "the trauma and stress of multiple attempts to find ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First and foremost, it is important to acknowledge that it is okay for a child or even an adult to be worried about or not like a ...

Parents have been asking me some pointed questions as to how to better help their child deal with getting a blood test or injection. Let me see if I can make this topic a lot less painful for children ...

Parents often ask about blood tests during routine pediatric visits, but pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies that healthy children rarely need them. She shares some of the criteria for ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has finalized the protocol for doctors to order lead testing in young children. It stems from a pair of bills passed ...