Does your child snore? Or sound like they're gasping for air at night? Here's what you need to know about sleep apnea in kids. Taylor Leamey wrote about all things wellness for CNET, specializing in ...

(CNN) -- If you're questioning whether tonsillectomy -- a surgical procedure to remove the tonsils -- can really improve sleep and throat health in children, new research suggests to cut it out.

Cough, cold, and upper respiratory infections tend to increase during the fall and winter months. Many of those infections are viral, and some are primarily or secondarily bacterial. In children, the ...

Editor's note: This article orginially appeared on the UNC Health Talk blog. In the 1960s and early 1970s, it was practically a rite of passage: School-age children in the U.S. routinely had their ...

A trip to the dentist for a routine exam and cleaning wound up drastically improving 7-year-old Charlotte Koveloski's life. Always a happy, active girl, Charlotte had trouble sleeping and snored often ...

Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes a person to stop breathing several times an hour during sleep. Though an estimated 18 million adults are thought to have the condition, it is often overlooked in ...

Eleven percent of American children have trouble breathing at night, and it could be because of their tonsils, according to a new study. “The hallmark is snoring,” said Dr. Max April, with the Weill ...

Surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids (adenotonsillectomy) in children with mild symptoms of throat infections or enlarged tonsils and adenoids has no major benefits over watchful waiting, ...

Tonsillectomy, also known as tonsil removal surgery, is a common procedure. Hundreds of thousands of children in the United States have their tonsils removed each year. But like any surgery, there are ...

A large study has found that removal of the tonsils as a child can mean that the individual is more susceptible to chest infections as an adult. The study appeared in the latest issue of the journal ...