Teens facing addiction and mental illness need services that treat both

New CAMH beds for youth with concurrent disorders welcomed as long overdue, but critics say it’s a drop in the bucket.

More and more, pediatric hospitals are allowing parents to stay with their children at the most critical of times.

The number of kids under age six who are obese declined significantly in recent years, according to a new study. Patterns in that age group give a glimpse into... (1)

Doctors are taking a stand when their medical advice is being ignored, says president of Pediatricians Alliance of Ontario

To be relevant today, sex ed should address ‘enthusiastic consent,’ porn, a balance of male and female pleasure, and what it means to be emotionally... (9)

In the wake of an inquest into the alcohol poisoning death of Chris Skinner, parents wrestle with the thorny issue of how to find an effective but realistic...

Canadian Karen Le Billon arrived in her husband’s small hometown in Northern France with a couple of picky eaters in tow and her own limited appreciation of... (6)

A new study suggests the combined vaccine against measles, mumps and chickenpox does not have the same risk of fever-related seizures in older children as it does...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that mothers with Type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes were more than twice as likely to give birth...

Potentially crippling “weight bias” starts as early as 2 years old, a researcher discovers.

Facebook campaign inspires Mattel to distribute bald Barbie to hospitals, charities in 2013.

Suicide rates are on the rise among girls and female adolescents, but have declined among males of the same age, according to a study published Monday in the...

Dermatologists are blaming dramatic rise in skin cancer on tanning beds and childhood sunburns.

New research shows the rate of children being diagnosed with autism continues to steadily rise and the condition is now considered almost twice as prevalent as it... (9)

Studies into diet therapy and sudden death in epilepsy are included in $7.2 million in grants awarded by the Ontario Brain Institute for brain research.

Help your kids get better focus, better grades, better health with the right amount of sleep.

Children and teens in Spain, like those in Canada, are overloading their backpacks and carrying far too much weight for their body size.

Children with sleep-disordered breathing at any time in the early years were more likely to develop symptoms of behavioural or emotional disorders like attention...

Parents already suffering from sleep deprivation don't look forward to springing ahead this weekend. Sleep consultant Tracey Ruiz offers these tips for getting... (1)

In a new study, girls and young women who got lots of vitamin D were half as likely to suffer a stress fracture as those who didn’t get much of the vitamin...

Kids born in December are 40 per cent more likely to be labeled with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and given medication than peers born in January... (0)