The Nemours Foundation
About Us
KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. KidsHealth has been on the Web since 1995 — and has been accessed by about half a billion visitors. On a typical weekday, more than 500,000 visitors access KidsHealth's reliable information.
Articles by The Nemours Foundation
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Movement, Coordination, and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
Walking is the major achievement of kids this age and over the course of the year they'll get much better at it. As...
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Sleep and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
Congratulations! Now your baby will probably begin to stay awake longer during the day and sleep more at night. Probably...
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Auditory Processing Disorder
About Auditory Processing Disorder Auditory processing disorder (APD), also known as central auditory processing...
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Growing Pains
Your 8-year-old son wakes up crying in the night complaining that his legs are throbbing. You rub them and soothe him as...
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Learning, Play, and Your 4- to 7-Month-Old
What Babies Are Learning By 4 months old, your baby has learned to recognize you and familiar caregivers, focus and...
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Amebiasis
About Amebiasis Amebiasis is an intestinal illness that's typically transmitted when someone eats or drinks something...
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Pinworm
Pinworm is an intestinal infection caused by tiny parasitic worms. One of the most common roundworm infections, pinworm...
Topics: Childhood Parasitic Infections
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