Children’s Center - May 2017 Archives

If you spend any time on social media, you've likely seen the photo. A window washer dressed as Superman hangs outside a young patient's ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 9-year-old daughter always has been small for her age and never has much of an appetite. She's also an anxious child. ...

"We tell our patients we want children to eat their fruit ─ not drink it," says Dr. Angela Mattke, a pediatrician with Mayo Clinic Children's ...

Measles is a childhood infection caused by a virus. Once quite common, measles can now almost always be prevented with a vaccine. Signs and ...

It may look like Amy K. Olson's job is all fun and games. Her 9-to-5 routine includes activities like playing bingo, bandaging dolls and leading ...

Raspberries are usually bright red and painful, and, no — not the fruit. Raspberries, strawberries, road rash — whatever you call these scrapes — ...

A recent Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) study shows that children who are vaccinated against influenza are significantly less likely to die from the flu. Dr. ...

Many teenagers, and sometimes their parents, think melanoma won't happen to people under 20, so skin cancer cases in young people aren't detected as early ...