Eye health and safety begins at birth when your pediatrician shines a light in your infant’s eyes and checks for the “red reflex”.  This is the same thing that you see in photographs with a flash and it checks to make sure that there isn’t something between the front of the eye and the retina

Hand, foot, and mouth disease is an illness caused by a group of viruses that are generally most active during the summer and fall.  It’s the most common in infants and children under age 5 but can at times cause disease in older children and adults.  Typically the illness starts with a fever which can

Who is at risk for viral meningitis?    Viral meningitis can affect all ages including newborns. What is the most common way viral meningitis develops?  Viral meningitis is an infection of the meninges which is essentially the lining that contains the brain and spinal cord.  There are various viruses that can cause this infection.  The most common