Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don't, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses during early school years, finds a new review of evidence by a group of ...

They didn’t know each other at the beginning of the year. Now these medical professionals text daily between work shifts and their own kids’ nap times in their effort to advocate for the well-being of ...

Study shows children get an average of 15 illnesses in first year of nursery - The researchers want employers to be more ...

Toddlers and pre-schoolers will contract 15 illnesses in their first year of nursery, a study has found. This would lead to about 13 days off nursery, experts said, as they called ...

A respiratory virus without a specific treatment or vaccine is surging in several states across the U.S. Here's what we know ...

Toddlers starting nursery face around 15 illnesses and 13 days off, new research shows – but how might this actually help them later?

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated the early ...

The paving stones on Helena Hammer’s back patio were laid in place by her husband in the days before he died, his body weak from his failing liver, his skin alarmingly yellow.

Several bills over the years have been pared back to studies and advocates are impatient. But the state says it must get it right.

A growing number of young people are turning to self-harm in Canada and other parts of the world, according to new research.

WAVING goodbye to her dad as he was hospitalised for excruciating headaches, Julie Tanny never imagined it would be the last ...