Doctors warn, as toddlers begin eating "grown-up" food, they may also develop grown-up eating habits - like too much junk food and too few vegetables.

Pediatric experts have recently warned of an increasing number of overweight 2-year-olds

An unknown respiratory illness has struck an Ontario nursing home, killing six elderly patients and infecting at least 79 residents, employees and visitors.

Toronto public health officials are monitoring 170 people connected to Seven Oaks Home for the Aged in Scarborough, a bedroom community just east of Toronto, including families and children who attend a day-care center in the building

A new study finds more than a third of U.S. pediatricians surveyed say they would tell families who refuse all vaccinations for their children to look elsewhere for care.

The report says that, "In the case of parents refusing specific vaccines, 82 (28 percent of the doctors) said that they would ask the family to seek care elsewhere; for refusal of all vaccines, 116 (39 percent) of pediatricians said they would refer the family" to another doctor

A new study finds more than a third of U.S. pediatricians surveyed say they would tell families who refuse all vaccinations for their children to look elsewhere for care.

The report says that, "In the case of parents refusing specific vaccines, 82 (28 percent of the doctors) said that they would ask the family to seek care elsewhere; for refusal of all vaccines, 116 (39 percent) of pediatricians said they would refer the family" to another doctor

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to eat certain Dole pre-packaged salads that have been connected to an E. coli outbreak in Minnesota.

The illnesses have all been associated with Dole salads bought at Rainbow Foods grocery store outlets in that state. But, salads carrying the same production codes have been distributed nationwide, prompting a national warning