• Protect Your Child against Rotavirus Disease

    Rotavirus can cause severe diarrhea, mostly in babies and young children. The good news is that there are vaccines to help prevent this disease. ...

  • Heads Up: Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome

    Nearly all victims of SBS suffer serious health consequences and at least one of every four babies who are violently shaken dies from this form of child maltreatment. You can play a key role in reinforcing prevention through helping people understand the dangers of violently shaking a baby, the risk...

  • Teen Pregnancy: The Importance of Prevention [CDC, Kids' Health]

    During the past 20 years, the rate of teen girls having children has dropped by about 40%, but approximately 1,100 teen girls still give birth every day. Learn what you can do to reduce teen pregnancy. ...

  • Asthma in the U.S. [CDC, Kids' Health]

    Women were more likely than men and boys more likely than girls to have asthma. About 1 in 10 children (10%) had asthma and 1 in 12 adults (8%) had asthma in 2009. People with asthma can prevent asthma attacks if they are taught to use inhaled corticosteroids and other prescribed daily long-term...

  • Text4baby for Pregnant Women and New Moms [CDC, Kids' Health]

    Text4baby is a service that provides pregnant women and new moms with free text messages each week on pregnancy and baby care health tips. These messages are timed to a woman's due date or the baby's date of birth. ...

  • Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9—12--

    Sexual minority youths are youths who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, bisexual, or unsure of their sexual identity or youths who have only had sexual contact with persons of the same sex or with both sexes. This report summarizes results from YRBSs conducted during 2001--2009 in seven states...

  • Keep Kids' Safe in the Summer [CDC, Kids' Health]

    Water, bugs, and the sun, are a few of the things kids experience more of in the summertime. For parents and others, extra vigilance is required to prevent injury and keep kids safe and healthy. ...

  • Beverage Consumption Among High School Students -- United States, 2010 [CDC, Kids' Health]

    Sugar drinks or sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are the largest source of added sugars in the diet of U.S. youths, and the increased caloric intake resulting from these beverages is one factor contributing to the prevalence of obesity among adolescents in the United States. Families, schools, and...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Wait a Nanosecond 6 | PBS KIDS GO!

    We're Sarah and Mande and we heard about a special metal that can kill bacteria: silver. Turns out silver has been used throughout history from Egyptians to American settlers to prevent bacteria in food and wounds. We stopped by the Sciencenter in Ithaca to learn more about how nanosized silver is...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Nanosilver | PBS KIDS GO!

    We're Sarah and Mande and we heard about a special metal that can kill bacteria: silver. Turns out silver has been used throughout history from Egyptians to American settlers to prevent bacteria in food and wounds. We stopped by the Sciencenter in Ithaca to learn more about how nanosized silver is...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Water Clean Up | PBS KIDS GO!

    I'm Taylor. My friend Gabe and I love the water, but we know that keeping it clean is not always easy. Just upriver in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, there is an old zinc smelting plant that was one of the factories polluting the local rivers and streams. We headed to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Wait a Nanosecond 5| PBS KIDS GO!

    Should we rush nanoresearch into practice so people can benefit ASAP? ...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Bone Regrowth | PBS KIDS GO!

    We're Kobel and Nathan. Our friend, Adam, took a skateboarding spill and is stuck with a cast on his leg for weeks. At the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, we learned that scientists are using nanotechnology to help regenerate nerves and bones. ...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Self-Assembly | PBS KIDS GO!

    I'm Keeli and my friend Connor and I love the great outdoors! We were practicing putting up our tents for a camping trip when I noticed that my tent seemed to set itself up almost instantly while Connor's tent took a long time to set up. I remembered this display I saw with school recently at the...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Wait a Nanosecond 4 | PBS KIDS GO!

    Is it important to learn how things work at the nanoscale? ...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Nasturtium Leaves | PBS KIDS GO!

    I'm Jasmine, during the summer I like to volunteer at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens with my friend Melinda. This summer our job was watering plants. While we were watering, Melinda and I noticed that different plants handled water in different ways. This got us thinking: Why do some leaves shed...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Gecko Feet | PBS KIDS GO!

    We're Jennifer and Nooshin and we're rock climbers extraordinaire! We recently decided to go to the Lawrence Hall of Science to see some lizards firsthand and find out: Which lizards are the best climbers? ...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Wait a Nanosecond 3 | PBS KIDS GO!

    Do you think nanotechnology is safe? ...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Stained Glass | PBS KIDS GO!

    We're Alettie and Yvonne! We live in Chicago and recently we decided to go to the MSI (that's Museum of Science and Industry) for its 75th anniversary. While we were there we met Annette and G. Brian, glass artists from the Corning Museum of Glass who made a glass dragonfly for us from our very own...

  • DragonflyTV . Podcast - Surface Area | PBS KIDS GO!

    We're Lara and Anushua and we're nuts about baking! So, we headed to the Baking Lab at the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis where we made sugar cookies. While the cookies were in the oven, we sat in on a demonstration about the explosive nature of flour dust. Turns out that flour mixed in the air was...