Parents' anger with GP service over sick baby

A dad has expressed his anger with an out-of-hours GP service after it failed to visit his three-month-old son who was suffering from bronchitis.

The Record: Smoke free

Prospect Park should enact smoking ban in Hofstra Park

Vaccination program credited in fight against whooping cough

Urging Californians to remain vigilant, officials announce that the state recorded no deaths in 2011 for the first time in two decades. Cases also fell sharply from 2010. Facing an epidemic of whooping cough that led to the deaths of 10 infants in 2010, California public health officials launched a massive vaccination effort and public awareness campaign about the disease.

Visit to doctors must for infants

DUBAI - “Parents should immediately take their child to a paediatrician, if an infant or a child experiences heavy coughing, rapid breathing and fever spread over several days,” experts advise, with the advent of the winter season.

What's going around: colds, cough, sore throats, but no flu

Doctors at a Wilmington pediatrician's office are still not seeing any confirmed cases of the flu.