CHAPEL HILL - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has added three more areas of North Carolina and is expanding the role played by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a long-term, wide-ranging study of the nation’s children.

INDIANAPOLIS – An annual back-to-school campaign aimed at enrolling children in low-cost government health insurance added a new goal this year: getting their parents and other adults signed up, too.

MANILA, Philippines - More than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday. Nearly all of t

A plan to require all New Jersey children to have health insurance cleared another hurdle today. The Senate budget panel released the legislation designed as a first step toward providing health coverage for all residents by 2011.

Mental health workers sent to emergency shelters in San Angelo last month to help care for the hundreds of women and children removed from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch have sharply criticized the Child Protective Services operation.