APH said through September, Austin-Travis County has seen 115 cases of whopping cough – also called pertussis – overall, ...

Over the years, diethylene glycol in Indian-made cough syrups has claimed dozens of young lives. In 2023, Indian syrups ...

A woman turned to Reddit after learning her close friend kept quiet about a contagious illness that left her severely ill and ...

The median age of the 150 children (91 boys, 56 girls) studied was 8.2 years (IQR 7); 163 parents were approached (response rate of 92%). Spirometry was normal in all children who could perform ...

Using drugs or medication to quiet or punish a child is child abuse, some say. Jul. 22, 2010— -- Giving a cranky child cough medicine to put him or her to sleep may not seem like child abuse, but ...

Chronic absenteeism remains high among California students. But some parents, especially those of kindergartners, don't want ...

Families sit in the hallway near of the gate of the pediatric ICU, where children were admitted after taking a cough syrup that has been linked to the deaths of multiple children, in Nagpur, India, ...

At least 22 children in India have died since early September after taking a toxic cough syrup, highlighting persistent quality-control failings in the country’s vast pharmaceutical industry.

Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district, already under national scrutiny after the deaths of at least 20 children due to contaminated cough syrup-induced acute kidney failure, has been shaken again by ...