Modern Kids

In the same way your voice is louder in a smaller room, sounds are amplified in a child’s smaller ear, says a Children’s Hospital audiologist.

Getting the message through is important: A high proportion of teen car crashes involve distracted driving. So a “multi-pronged” strategy is underway.

Vaccines worry a lot of parents. Pediatricians understand that, but they worry we’ve forgotten just how sick kids can get without the shots.

His immigration status — undocumented — stands in the way of obtaining medication and therapy a 15-year-old boy needs for his depression, ADHD, and more.

The goal is simple: saving sight in the amblyopia-affected eye. To keep children from abandoning treatment, researchers are experimenting.

Amblyopia affects three out of every 100 kids. Age 2 is the ideal time to detect and treat it, vision experts say, but that doesn’t happen often.

Standing ready to fight measles like an enemy is the best defense, health care experts say. Here’s how one hospital and school district have prepared.

The experience of a brother or sister of someone with a drug addiction is distinct from a parent’s. Siblings may feel guilty they didn’t see signs of a substance problem.

The basic issue is trust, one expert says: A trust that’s been broken by a brother or sister, and sometimes in deeply painful ways.

A 2017 study found 66% of African-American kids couldn’t swim well enough to be safe in the deep end of a pool. We Can Swim dives in to change that.

Reach Out and Read, with 81 sites in the Philadelphia area alone, helps families with young children that typically don’t own books and can’t afford them.

Reading, even talking, to a little one furiously directs neuron fibers to places in the brain where the magic of language, memory and attention develop.

Promoting children’s wellness is more complex than exercise and good food, experts say: “It's not about the scale moving, it's about your mindset changing.”

There’s still a gender gap when it comes to kids and sports. Here’s what one group is doing to change that.