The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its advice that kids get an annual flu shot at a time when flu cases ...

Keep your child home. Most schools and medical experts recommend your child miss school if their body temperature rises above 100 degrees. Check with your school district for specific guidance, but ...

Today's working parents are able to juggle much more when their children get sick. Here's how. Many of us remember calling a parent at work to have them pick us up from school for a sick day, or ...

Five more cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus that's spreading around the world, popped up in Wake County this week. Trinity Academy, a private school in Raleigh, closed ...

This year, respiratory illnesses are on the rise, and our family has added to that count more than once. Well, most of our family. You see, I’m sick in bed — because my kid has coughed, sneezed and, ...

The kids are back to school, and that could mean trips back to the doctor as illnesses start to spread throughout the household. “But it's very important that parents know that young kids get sick,” ...

Kids are really the germiest members of the household. In case you didn’t know that from experience, new research published in the journal Pediatrics confirmed that respiratory viruses circulate ...

Genexa, the first clean medicine brand, founded by parents to transform the medicine aisle, today released its 2025 State of the Sick Day. A national YouGov survey commissioned by Genexa, of 1,000 U.S ...

SAN ANTONIO – Pediatric doctors in San Antonio say 2025 brought a familiar post-COVID pattern: more childhood viruses emerging outside their usual seasons and some infections hitting harder than they ...