Experts explain why places are seeing record increases in COVID infections among kids and how families can minimize exposure risks.

How a simple health care need gained importance during the pandemic.

New mandates require children ages 2-4 to wear masks at places like stores, daycare and camps. Specialists share their secrets to helping kids comply. 

As experts point to team sports as a driver of COVID youth cases, 1 in 4 parents give their sports leagues low rankings for consistently enforcing safety guidelines.

Young patient’s reaction to commercial featuring gold medalist and double amputee Jessica Long goes viral, leads to Zoom introduction.

At 10 years old, Akylah Marshall was your typical preteen. But in November of 2019, life had different plans for Akylah. After days of severe and unexplained vomiting, Akylah’s mother Angela knew that what her daughter was experiencing was far from routine. Worse, in less than a week’s time, Akylah’s abdomen was bulging and distended well beyond its normal shape and size.

Imaging revealed that Carter had a spinal cord defect called spina bifida, a condition that ranges in level of severity and has the ability to render a child unable to walk or have normal bowel and bladder function. While the solution for this delicate condition has always been surgery outside of the womb, Michigan Medicine had a different answer – surgery in the womb.

A few months after turning three, things took a downward turn for Dominic when he started having what his mother would describe as seizure activity.

Kristi Brown’s first pregnancy had been going even better than she hoped. But at week 20, an ultrasound revealed unexpected news: her baby had spina bifida.

Baby Gus appeared healthy, but further investigation revealed a congenital heart defect.

From medical play to gaming, child life specialists offer different ways to ease stress and anxiety in kids during medical visits.

A pediatrician answers parents’ questions about the COVID-related multi-system inflammatory syndrome, MIS-C.

Research finds juvenile myositis and lupus share an inflammatory pathway, but their  pathophysiological differences may serve as diagnostic biomarkers in future studies.

Nearly half of parents noticed a new or worsening mental health condition in their teen since the pandemic started; 3 in 4 say COVID has affected teens’ social interactions.

A patient, a mother and their health care family.