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Mental Health and Teens: Watch for Danger Signs

Adapted from Healthy Children Magazine, Winter 2007 Adolescence isn’t an easy time for parents, either. As children move through the various tumultuous transitions that accompany adolescence — physical, emotional, hormonal, sexual, social, intellectual — the pressures...

AAP Urges Parents to Vaccinate for Measels

Statement by Sandra G. Hassink, MD, FAAP As the measles outbreak linked to Disneyland continues to spread, pediatricians are deeply concerned about the children who have been infected, and those who are at risk because they have not been vaccinated. The American...

Nutek Disposables Recall Baby Wipes

Recall — Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.   Nutek...

Ebola Is No Measles

Comparing this virus to scourges of the past gives us hope that we can slow it down. By Gerardo Chowell-Puente This piece was originally published in Zócalo Public Square. The Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa is the worst in the history of this virus, which...