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(MedPage Today) -- Small turtles are once again the source of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than a hundred people in the U.S., most of them youngsters, government researchers said.

(MedPage Today) -- Overweight youngsters did not have an increased risk of asthma in later childhood if their weight normalized by age 7, according to a Swedish study that partly challenged speculation about an obesity-asthma link in children.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pediatricians are supposed to track if youngsters are putting on too many pounds - but a new study found less than a quarter of parents of overweight children recall the doctor ever saying there was a problem....

Almost 6% of young people between the ages of 12 and 14 drank alcohol in the past month, and close to half of them got it at home or from family members, a study shows.

Cigarette advertising significantly increases the odds that youngsters who see the ads will start smoking, but exposure to ads for other products does not, a new study shows.

A shocking number of young city students are overweight or obese - with about half the youngsters in some zip codes tipping the scales too heavily, a new city report shows.

Holidays can pose dangers to young people, but most injuries to youngsters during festive periods are related to “everyday” situations such as slipping on stairs or riding bikes.

CHICAGO (AP) -- An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight - a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children....

MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- When children with asthma were assigned social workers as counselors to help them stay on medication and deal with other problems, the youngsters spent less time in emergency departments and got greater relief of symptoms, investigators reported here.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say....