Mayo Clinic Children’s Center

While childhood cancer is rare, 1 in every 266 children and adolescents will be diagnosed with cancer by age 20, according to the American Cancer Society. [...]

Treatment for brain tumors in children can differ from treatment for brain tumors in adults, so it is important to seek care from specialists in [...]

Hand, foot and mouth disease, most commonly caused by a coxsackievirus, is a highly contagious childhood illness. The virus can be spread through respiratory droplets, person-to-person [...]

When it comes to sports and activities, what a child eats can affect performance. Sports nutrition focuses on not only on good eating habits, but [...]

Asthma is a lung condition that causes swelling of the airways. It can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath. It's [...]

Checking your child's hearing should be on your back-to-school list. Dr. Kelly Conroy, a Mayo Clinic audiologist, says children with an undiagnosed hearing issue can face [...]

Breastfeeding can be challenging, but help is available for new mothers. Lactation consultants, either at the hospital or through organizations like La Leche League, can [...]

The menstrual cycles for adolescents vary significantly, including the age at which the first period begins. Frequency, length of period, and amount of bleeding also [...]

COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in the U.S. have been expanded to include children ages 6 months to age 5 years. The new vaccine recommendations mean children in the [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 children's hospital in Minnesota according to U.S. News & World Report's [...]

Pectus excavatum is a condition where a person's breastbone is sunken into the chest. While the sunken breastbone is often noticeable shortly after birth, the [...]

Toxoplasmosis is a disease that results from an infection from one of the most common parasites. So common in fact that it might be in [...]