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Childhood Obesity: Health Risks, Diagnosis and Treatment 
Determining if a child or adolescent has a weight problem can be challenging. This article discusses childhood obesity, including health risks, diagnosis, and treatment.... Details >
Childhood Obesity: Prevention
Behaviors involving physical activity and nutrition are the cornerstone of preventing obesity in children and adolescents. Families and schools are the two most critical links in providing the foundat... Details >
Childhood Vaccines: What They Are and Why Your Child Needs Them
A vaccine is a medicine that's given to help prevent a disease. Vaccines not only help keep your child healthy, they help all children by stamping out serious childhood diseases. ... Details >
Children and the Flu Vaccine
This page presents recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on which children should get a flu vaccine. CDC recommends that healthy children aged 6 months up through t... Details >
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Children’s Growth Abnormalities – An Overview
It is often said that maintaining a normal growth pattern is nature's lab test for good health. Growth is influenced by many factors such as heredity, genetic or congenital, illness and medications, n... Details >
Children’s Health Topics: Behavioral and Mental Health
This section addresses child and family emotional well-being and coping. The section links to information on raising emotionally healthy children and coping with common behavioral and mental health co... Details >
Children’s Health Topics: Diseases and Conditions
This section addresses prevention, symptoms, and treatment of medical problems. The section links to information on how to help families work with their pediatricians to understand and manage childhoo... Details >
Children’s Health Topics: Family Health
This section addresses children’s health and well-being in the context of the family. The section links to information on the impact of a positive family environment on children’s development. Informa... Details >
Children's Environmental Yearbook - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This book contains the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) current actions to protect children from environmental hazards. It contains the latest information on the unique threats that enviro... Details >
Office of Children’s Health Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Children's Health and Potential Environmental Hazards
This searchable database of publications and articles includes examples of potential environmental hazards that may be of interest to parents, researchers, and/or have been covered by the media. The l... Details >
Office of Children’s Health Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency