New data suggests that lots of time on screens may even improve peer relationships. But the study comes with caveats.

Children are at the heart of the battle between usefulness and security. Can we trust Big Tech to find solutions to making computers, and life online, safer for them?

Unusual visual inspection of objects by babies 9 month and older can predict later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, a new study shows.

Most parents with children in the hospital want to learn what the stay will cost, but few are having conversations about money with financial counselors.

A new scoring system allows doctors who aren’t specialists to identify kids who may be at risk for longer-term effects from concussion.

Ofer Levy, who directs Boston Children’s Hospital’s Precision Vaccines Program, discussed the news that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been shown to be safe in school-age children, a potentially key development in the fight to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.

Adding a shelter cat to the family can not only lower stress and anxiety of kids with autism, it can lower the cat's stress, too.