Clinicians must adapt to the new reality of HFMD, as emerging strains drive serious complications and challenge old ...

PHILADELPHIA - As the back-to-school season approaches, the American Academy of Pediatrics reports an uptick in hand-foot-and-mouth disease cases among young children, more than any other summer. This ...

The usual way for your newborn baby to breathe is through their nose. This is unless their nasal passage has some blockage, which can lead to mouth breathing. Young babies don't develop the reflex to ...

My nine-year-old’s record for clearing her throat is 33 times in one minute. I counted. It’s a noise so distracting sometimes you can’t really do anything else but count how many times it happens.

Chronic motor tic disorder is a condition that involves brief, uncontrollable, spasm-like movements or vocal outbursts (called phonic tics), but not both. If both a physical tic and vocal outburst are ...

My neighbor’s child, Daniel, was only 5 when she noticed that he blinked a lot. Reassured by numerous family members and friends (some of whom were physicians) that it would go away on its own, she ...

Nonvoluntary stressful movements or sounds are everyday reality for children and adolescents with Tourette Syndrome, but the symptoms can be significantly reduced -- both when help comes individually ...