About 11% of Americans who are age 12 or older take antidepressants, including many who have not seen a mental health professional in the past year, according to a new federal report.

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Should you let your kids get dirty and be exposed to germs? WebMD discusses this idea and the benefits and risks associated with it.

"Pregnancy brain" is the buzzword for forgetfulness during pregnancy. Find out about its causes and what to do about it.

Her children are math geniuses, gymnastic stars -- and did you know they started reading at 3? How to respond to mothers who brag too much.

Experts share tips for parents on how to handle the different personality types of toddlers.

AP - Health officials say roughly 1 in 25 adolescents in the United States are taking antidepressants.

(MedPage Today) -- Doing surgery on adults with congenital heart disease doesn't disproportionately eat up pediatric hospital resources, but paying attention to factors like depression could help cut down on pricey admissions, researchers found.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Doctors frequently order bed rest during pregnancy to protect the mother's health and that of the developing baby.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Obese children need special attention when they undergo anesthesia, two new studies suggest.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Three leading U.S. cancer groups have proposed new guidelines for cervical cancer testing for women, including when to start screening for sexually active young women, extending intervals between screenings and in some cases, supplementing the traditional Pap test with human papilloma virus (HPV) testing.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Although pregnant women who have high blood pressure face a higher risk that their baby will be born with birth defects, new research indicates that the medications typically used to treat the condition will not raise that risk any further.

For years doctors have struggled to identify Down Syndrome in pregnant women, giving expectant mothers the opportunity to abort the full term. Now a new blood test promises to change all that with several new products coming to market that aim to provide accurate results in the 8th to 12th weeks. Until these tests become commonly used and proved, women have to rely on an ultra sound that gives only risk indications...

Premature infants who are exposed to their parents voices in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) tend to have better vocalizations at 32 and 36 weeks gestational age, researchers from the Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island reported in the journal Pediatrics. For a baby, vocalizing (uttering sounds) starts with the first cry. The mother, parents or caregivers start the communication process by responding to their baby's vocalizations...

New Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics say that children as young as four can be diagnoses and treated for ADHD. The previous research was more than a decade old and covered children from 6 to 12, but with more research and understanding of the issues surrounding ADHD in children, the upper limit was also expanded to include teenagers to age 18. Dr. Mark Wolraich, lead author of the report released Sunday at the AAP National Conference in Boston. "There is now enough evidence to address this broader age range," he said...

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- The frequency of pediatric urolithiasis more than doubled over an 8-year period at a large children's hospital and the pediatric urologists have yet to find a reason for the increase.

AP - Annual cancer tests are becoming a thing of the past. New guidelines out Wednesday for cervical cancer screening have experts at odds over some things, but they are united in the view that the common practice of getting a Pap test every year is too often and probably doing more harm than good.