Keep your family free of sniffles.

Dr. Mindy Gentry talks about the screenings our 12 contestants underwent before starting our compeition.

British medical journal BMJ calls a 1998 study on vaccines and autism that led millions of parents to delay or decline vaccines "an elaborate fraud."

On a recent morning, Yolanda Gilmore and her son, Darnell, stopped at a Church's Chicken for a lunch of fried chicken, french fries, biscuits and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

A salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts has sickened 89 people in 15 states, possible link to "national sandwich chain"

A study says nearly one million kids in the United States live in areas with no local children's doctor.

Thanks to technology many of those letters to Santa can now be sent through the Web. The Better Business Bureau is urging parents that before letting their children log on, they check out any site first.

Lugging around a few extra pounds? A new government study finds that you don't have to be obese to raise your risk of premature death. Merely being overweight carries some risk, too.

The health arm of the National Academy of Sciences warns that more may not be better when it comes to vitamin D.

A leading medical group says there's some evidence that probiotics, or "good" bacteria, may have limited benefits for certain illnesses in children.

San Francisco lawmakers have voted to override Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto and to pass a law prohibiting fast-food restaurants from including toys with children's meals that do not meet nutritional guidelines.

Laboratory tests commissioned by The Associated Press show that drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" exceed federal limits for lead in children's products by up to 1,000 times.

Government research finds a big drop in emergency room visits now that cough and cold medicines for very young children have been removed from store shelves.

What's really in your child's school lunch?  Local cafeterias try to make healthy meals, but with budget cuts and strict guidelines, how do they really turn out?

Parents who say their daughter allegedly suffered serious health problems from a childhood vaccine are trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow them to sue the manufacturer.