Children with MRSA and multidrug-resistant, gram-negative rod infections were identified and isolated if they tested positive in 75 percent and 86 percent of hospitals. respectively.

A new study shows that antibiotics were prescribed inappropriately for about 33 percent of surgery patients at U.S. children's hospitals, according to the University of Minnesota's Center for ...

Three out of every four U.S. children have been infected with the coronavirus and more than half of all Americans had signs of previous infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Doctors should be on the lookout for a particular kind of invasive strep infection in children that can result in so-called “flesh-eating” disease and organ failure, according to health ...

WASHINGTON — As the school year draws near, children and teens represent a ballooning percentage of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as the youngest Americans increasingly venture outside their hom… ...

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Children's National in Washington, D.C., have not seen any significant uptick in group A strep infections at this time, spokespeople for the two hospitals said.

More than 90% of children in the U.S. have survived at least one infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, based on data collected from commercial laboratories around the country ...

WASHINGTON — As the school year draws near, children and teens represent a ballooning percentage of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as the youngest Americans increasingly venture outside their hom… ...