Asthma is the leading serious chronic illness in children. More than 6 million children suffer from asthma in the United States alone. Steps parents take before their baby.s birth and during the first year of life appear remarkably effective at preventing childhood asthma, even among those kids otherwise most likely to get it. The Canadian [...]

The more servings of French fries that women had eaten way back when they were preschoolers, the more likely they were to develop breast cancer as adults, according to a Harvard study in the August 10, 2005 online International Journal of Cancer. We know that diet and cancer are often linked, and that changes in [...]

One finding from an August 2005 study of kids walking to school was predictable; another was rather surprising. In this study, published online August 17, 2005 in the British Medical Journal, four classes of 30 students each were recruited to wear devices that measured their amounts of healthy moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) throughout the day [...]

More than a third of overweight kids, age 2 through 18, already have elevated blood pressure, according to a study of 497 kids that appears in the August 2005 Pediatrics. About half of the kids with high blood pressure were already in trouble with their cholesterol levels. Strikingly, more than a quarter of overweight kids [...]

Kids (and pets) left alone in cars have died from heat stroke on days as cool as 70 degrees Fahrenheit. How can this be? We all know that on hot August afternoons the inside of cars can become unbearably hot. But researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that parked cars can heat [...]