When a child is sick, having them take their medication can be just as important as ensuring they eat well and get enough rest. But for many families, getting kids to actually swallow their medication ...

“How do I get my kids to take medicine?” is one of the most common questions parents ask Dr. Debra Langlois, a pediatrician at University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. But as ...

Dosing directions for kids' medicine is often tricky, leading to O.D.s. Dec. 1, 2010— -- Dosing directions for children's over-the-counter medication are misleading and hard for parents to ...

Peihua Jiang knows how difficult it can be to convince a child to take a sip of a bitter liquid medication. When they were young, his kids sometimes balked at taking medicines because they didn't like ...

As pediatricians who take care of children in the inpatient, emergency, and primary care settings, we are alarmed by the recent trend of families having to go without basic medications to control ...

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including in children. In the U.S., about 3.5 million children aged 3 ...

WashU Medicine researchers find stimulant medications don’t affect attention-controlling regions of the brain, as previously ...