My son, who has had seasonal allergies for the past few years, came home sniffling a couple weeks back. We didn't react: after all, he's only recently started to be substantially free of seasonal allergy symptoms, and so we thought that perhaps something had triggered an allergic reaction. He complained ...

According to recent research, H1N1 or swine flu is likely to be highly contagious. In fact, it's more likely to be spread from an infected individual to others than the seasonal flu. So, many parents are starting to worry about how to take care of their child if that child ...

This is troubling news for folks with allergies and asthma, who are often counseled to get the seasonal flu shot because of their health issues: an unpublished Canadian study apparently shows that if you got last year's flu shot, you could be more susceptible to swine flu this year. The ...

New York - A Belgian study reveals that swimming in chlorinated pools can increase a child's risk of asthma and allergies like hay fever. Researchers discovered that teenagers who swam more than 100 hours total (over their lifetimes) in chlorinated pools increased their risk of asthma as much as six ...

A new study shows that it's not just the stress that you have during pregnancy that affects your baby's development: stressors that have happened over the course of your lifetime can affect your unborn child too! Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in conjunction with colleagues from Harvard School of ...