Infectious diseases are not the widespread ailment affecting children's health like they once did.

The new millennium school children are suffering from obesity, depression and behavioral problems rather than the measles or mumps.

According to the Centre for Child and Community Health, a large number of young children, including toddlers and babies, are suffering from mental health issues as opposed to infections

An outbreak of mumps that began in eastern Canada has now moved into Toronto.

Officials at the Toronto Public Health have confirmed that three cases of mumps have been recorded in Canada's most populated city

Following a massive global vaccination campaign, the death of children due to measles has dropped by 60 percent, the World Health Organization announced Friday.

The study, which is published in the British medical journal The Lancet, estimates that the number of measles deaths fell from 873,000 in 1999 to 345,000 in 2005, due to increased immunization campaigns. The World Health Organization revealed that more than 360 million children aged 9 months to 15 years were vaccinated against measles during that period

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance to aid manufacturers in developing safe and effective cell-based viral vaccines.

The FDA said in a statement that its goal is to facilitate the development and availability of safe and effective vaccines, including those to address emerging and pandemic threats.

Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., Food and Drug, said in the release, "The guidance document released today is a vital part of our overall efforts to help manufacturers develop new vaccines that are critical to meeting global public health needs

A new study finds that vaccines containing mercury do not increase the risk of autism.

Researchers at McGill University Health Center examined the rate of autism in 28,000 children who had been given the vaccine