After child flu deaths broke a record last winter, the CDC dropped its universal flu shot recommendation for kids. Here's ...

Gertrude B. Elion, a chemist working in the research laboratories of Burroughs Wellcome, revolutionized childhood cancer ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the journalist and author who was a granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has died after revealing she had been diagnosed with cancer, her family announced Tuesday. She was 35. "Our ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, President John F. Kennedy's granddaughter, has died. Here's what to know about acute myeloid leukemia and how it's treated.

Seizures in children are usually linked straight away to fever, family history or epilepsy, but doctors still keep running into cases where an infection of the nervous system is the real trigger. This ...

WINCHESTER, Ky. (WKYT) - Instead of spending Christmas under the glow of a Christmas tree, four-year-old Mylo Hollingshed of Winchester is looking to spend the holidays in a hospital room. “Since last ...

Nearly a third of families with children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – the most common pediatric cancer – develop serious financial difficulties during their child's ...

Nearly 30% of families with children undergoing ALL treatment face catastrophic financial toxicity, including household material hardship and income loss. Families with lower income, single-parent ...

In 1954, researchers described a new drug that sent children with acute leukemia into remission. It would become one of the first chemotherapy drugs and would later form the basis for a new, "rational ...

RINCON, Ga. (WTOC) - The city of Rincon showed up Saturday in support of one little boy who was diagnosed with cancer at just one year old. After a one-year-old baby was diagnosed with leukemia, the ...

Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital this week launched a new advanced leukemia program. The program was spearheaded by a $4 million gift from the suburban pediatric cancer charity Cal's Angels. The ...