Bechman and Jude Anderson were fighting for their lives during cancer treatment, their families saw how blood transfusions helped pull them through. Their chemotherapy treatments left Brooke, 5, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Northwestern University study suggests young children with high blood pressure have a sharply increased risk of dying of heart ...

Children born to mothers with obesity, a form of diabetes that develops during pregnancy (gestational diabetes mellitus) or high blood pressure during pregnancy have higher blood pressure — both the ...

Pediatric medicine is more often than not a “calling” — the result of a personal commitment to reduce suffering in our children. This mission-oriented sense of purpose exists at odds with the economic ...

Children are at risk for high blood pressure if their mom suffered health problems during pregnancy Kids had higher blood pressure on average if their moms had obesity, gestational diabetes or a high ...

Diabetes, obesity and elevated blood pressure typically emerge in middle-age, but more young children are showing signs of chronic conditions that may take a toll on their health. The latest report on ...

A heart health journey may start much earlier than once thought, as new research shows that kids with higher blood pressure at age 7 had a sharply increased risk of dying of heart disease by their mid ...