When the O’Neills learned that their daughter had Sanfilippo syndrome, a devastating rare disease, they created a GoFundMe campaign that raised $2 million in less than a year.

Certain non-chromosomal defects are strongly associated with specific childhood cancers.

Mutations in the TP53 gene appear to influence the prognosis and likelihood of future cancers in pediatric leukemia patients.

Two large-scale studies reveal new insights into the genomic characteristics of childhood cancers.

An analysis of the genomes of nearly 600,000 healthy individuals reveals a handful of people who appear resistant to certain genetic disorders.

Researchers find evidence that measles vaccines reduced deaths from other infectious diseases due to “immune amnesia.”

Taking multiple courses of common antibiotics before the age of 2 may increase a child’s risk of obesity.

Linking single-gene defects to inflammatory bowel disease in young children may help all sufferers of the illness.

A constitutional court upholds the requirement that Croatian children be vaccinated for hepatitis, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, and more.

Neuroscientist and pediatric neurologist Peter Huttenlocher, who discovered that synapse growth peaks in early childhood, has passed away at age 82.