Healthcare Network launches initiative to reduce childhood obesity. Florida ranks 35th in overall prevalence of obesity.

Doctors are warning that cases of hand, foot and mouth disease are surging in the eastern U.S. this summer.

As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for the elimination of nonmedical exemptions for routine childhood vaccinations, according to an updated policy statement issued July 28. “Because ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released new guidance stating that the genetic disorders Trisomy 13 and 18 are not "uniformly lethal" and the practice of promoting abortion and "postnatal ...

Physicians are being told to play a bigger role in ensuring that children with disabilities have access to needed augmentative and alternative communication technologies.

"Among the major world religious traditions, none include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated," AAP says. "Are we in some dystopian rerun of 2020?" ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that all people ages 6 months and older be vaccinated against influenza ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics maintains that schools and day cares must require proof of vaccinations for children to attend. Just five states have laws that accept only medical exemptions.

An updated policy statement from the AAP reiterated the organization's support for laws that require certification of ...

American Academy of Pediatrics warns of vaccine changes from Kennedy's CDC advisers A newly appointed CDC panel is reconsidering recommendations for childhood vaccines, sparking concern from ...