Goldberger's volunteers were given the poor Southern diet he had seen associated with pellagra. That was the only difference. The other inmates ate the usual farm fare. Every effort was made to ...

Fever is very common in young children and it can be difficult to distinguish between simple viral illnesses and life-threatening bacterial infections in this group. Our guideline on fever in under 5s ...

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The surgeon general took note of his energy and success and in 1914, appointed him to tackle the crisis of pellagra, a disease recently reaching epidemic proportions in the South. Through ...

Researchers have been looking at how children from single-parent and two-parent families fare in life. So what did they find? Family life is more richly varied than ever before. A growing ...

Children worry, and they feel alone with their worries. Early on, they worry about shadows, ghosts, and monsters or imaginary creatures under the bed or in the closet. They worry about fires and ...

One child struggling with hunger is one too many. But the heartbreaking reality is that today, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the ...

Child labor violations in the United States soared in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to data released by the Labor Department on Thursday, rising to their highest level in nearly two decades ...