Steroids fail to help children with meningitis - Bacterial meningitis is a terrible disease that usually ends in death, especially among children in developing countries. Up to half of all patients i...

Zinc supplements stop diarrhea - A simple daily supplement of 20 mg of zinc is enough to help children recover from severe diarrhea. Taken early enough, it can also reduce the length...

Measles vaccine: given to babies - Stand by for a campaign to vaccinate children against measles even earlier, following a major study into the use of vaccines in a developing country....

Inhalers: They dramatically increase the risk of fatal heart attack - Inhalers for lung problems such as emphysema and bronchitis can dramatically increase the risk of heart attack and death, a new study has found.

The scandal of the benzo babies - We hear so much about medical blunders that it seems unbelievable that a scandal involving more than one million children in the UK alone has been goi...

Poor have healthier babies - Poor, immigrant women are giving birth to healthier babies than are wealthier white women in the United States. ...

Diarrhea - Diarrhea is generally a healthy, cleansing response to some passing irritation of the gut. In some instances it can be caused by infection (food poi...

The best vitamin A supplement - Vitamin A is commonly known as the anti-infection vitamin. It plays an important role in vision and bone growth, and maintains the surface linings of...