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With an increase in the number of kids playing organized sports, injuries have increased, accounting for one out of every five visits to the emergency room in the under-25 age group.

Visiting area pools, rivers and lakes are popular summer activities and they have physicians at Dell Children's Medical Center concerned as child drowning incidents have increased.

Both Travis and Williamson Counties have reported an unusually large number of cases.

Immunizations commonly given to babies during the first year of life provide protection against 12 childhood diseases that previously were associated with death and disability among children.

School leaders, parents and local public health officials will be keeping a closer than usual watch on incidents of influenza-like illness.

As the school year begins in just a few weeks, now is the time to plan more healthy nutrition for students.

Influential organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly support breastfeeding as the gold standard of nutrition for mothers.

Texas' new booster seat law will help save the lives of children by ensuring that they are appropriately restrained in vehicles.

A recent study published in the medical journal Optometry and Vision Science concluded that kids who spend more time outside - and away from the television set - are less likely to develop myopia or the inability to see things clearly at a distance.

The Texas Department of Health has increased immunization requirements for Texas school children beginning August 1, 2009.

This year in May, the Mothers Milk Bank of Austin celebrates its tenth year of service to the community with an event at the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas Healing Garden.