Neurosurgeons urge ban on kids using ATVs
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NEW YORK  - Children riding all-terrain   vehicles (ATVs) are in danger of suffering disabling or even   fatal head injuries, a team of neurosurgeons warns.
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TORONTO (CP) - Hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada, a study suggests.
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Children are having the chance to play outdoors taken away from them, a group of experts warns.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Fake bull testicles and other anatomically explicit vehicle decorations would be banned from Maryland roads under a bill pending in the state legislature. The measure was filed in the General Assembly Monday by Delegate LeRoy E.
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TRENTON, NJ A video game may be the best thing to help children feel less anxious before surgery. A doctor in Newark, New Jersey, found that children who are allowed to play with a Game Boy in the operating
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With child athletes becoming increasingly competitive and training more rigorous at younger ages, orthopedic doctors said they are seeing an alarming rise in sports injuries simply from kids overdoing it.
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A common treatment for head injuries could be killing rather than saving patients, experts warn.
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School bus and commercial bus drivers should be prohibited from using cell phones while operating their vehicles, except in emergencies, U.S. safety investigators recommended on Tuesday.
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Doctors ought to quit using fuzzy terms to define children's weight problems and instead refer to truly fat kids as overweight or obese, a committee of medical experts recommended.
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Worried about radio-frequency radiation, Fairfax parents urge school board to ban placement of antenna poles near campuses.
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Inappropriate advertising contributes to many kids' ills, from obesity to anorexia, to drinking booze and having sex too soon, and Congress should crack down on it, the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
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A study suggests hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada. A neurologist and dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, is the lead author of the study.
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A father considers legal action to stop the downgrading of a neurosurgery unit where his son was treated.
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A government report issued Friday recommends that federal regulators not ban sales of new, full-size all-terrain vehicles to buyers who plan to let children ride them.
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The Romney administration is trying a carrot-and-stick approach to stem the high rate of accidents among teenage drivers in Massachusetts.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 15--El Dorado Irrigation District board members followed up a call for banning personal watercraft on Silver Lake with a request to limit boat speeds, a move that would effectively eliminate water skiing as well.
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(KRON) -- There are more safety concerns about painkillers after the parents of a 7-year-old Los Angeles girl sued the makers of Children&#39;s Motrin.