Does your child have strep throat, or is it just a common cold? It's challenging but important for parents to understand the differences in throat infections in kids. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've all been there, staring into the tip of a long swab that's about to plunge down our throats. Parents have probably also had ...

Several children’s hospitals in the U.S. have detected increases in invasive group A strep infections, a severe and sometimes life-threatening illness that occurs when bacteria spreads to areas of the ...

Scientists have discovered how some children develop natural immunity to a bacterial infection, a vital breakthrough which could help develop vaccines to save up to half a million lives globally each ...

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One of the common illnesses is strep throat, it's caused by Group A strep bacteria that's known to be contagious. It can ...

In a medical advance that may revolutionize the battle against one of the globe's most deadly bacterial infections, researchers have pinpointed individual antibodies that protect children naturally ...

Strep throat is extremely common among school age children and adolescents, but may occur at any age. Transmission of strep throat, caused by Group A streptococcus bacteria, usually happens after ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday alerted the medical community to an increase in pediatric cases of invasive group A strep infections. Group A streptococci are the same ...