Anxious parents are flooding social media sites in search of fever-reducing medication for their little ones as cold and flu season begins. Pediatricians and pharmacists are trying to reassure ...

Before dispensing medicine, Hourigan suggests parents to acknowledge the symptoms, open a dialogue for kids to process their feelings and make it clear there are other ways to treat those symptoms ...

Phone app relieves parents’ angst over proper fever medicine dose for young kids By Sheryl Ubelacker The Canadian Press Published May 6, 2013 ...

Toronto's SickKids Hospital is advising parents of changes to access to some over-the-counter fever and pain medicine for children, due to a nationwide supply shortage of Advil and Tylenol.

Parents should stick with more precise metric measuring devices such as syringes instead of teaspoons to give children the correct dose of medications, U.S. and Canadian experts say. Unintentional ...

Common household spoons are often used when parents give kids a dose of medication, but a new study suggests there’s a real danger to estimating amounts of prescription, or over the counter ...