Bechman and Jude Anderson were fighting for their lives during cancer treatment, their families saw how blood transfusions helped pull them through. Their chemotherapy treatments left Brooke, 5, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Northwestern University study suggests young children with high blood pressure have a sharply increased risk of dying of heart ...

At most well-child visits, parents expect to hear about height and weight. But another important number is quietly becoming part of routine care: blood pressure. While many people think of high blood ...

New research from the American Heart Association (AHA) suggests that parents might want to keep a closer eye on their kids’ blood pressure. About one in seven (14%) of children and teens in the U.S.

Doctor measuring blood pressure of a little girl. Children are at risk for high blood pressure if their mom suffered health problems during pregnancy Kids had higher blood pressure on average if their ...