Infant and toddler health
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Solid foods: How to get your baby started
Follow these tips for starting your baby on solid foods.
Albinism
In this group of inherited disorders, the body makes little or no melanin, a pigment that determines hair, skin and eye color and vision development.
Growth plate fractures
Growth plate fractures — This common childhood bone injury often needs immediate treatment as it can result in a shorter, longer or crooked limb.
Neuroblastoma
Learn more about the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of neuroblastoma, one of the most common cancers of childhood.
Undescended testicle
Learn about causes, complications and treatment of this condition in which one or both testicles aren't in the usual place within the scrotum.
Tuberous sclerosis
This uncommon genetic disorder causes tumors that are not cancer. These tumors are unexpected overgrowths of tissue in different parts of the body.
Mayo Clinic Minute: Why the risk of frostbite is greater than you think
Learn why the risk of frostbite is greater than you think.
Kratom: Unsafe and ineffective
Users claim kratom lifts mood and boosts energy, but there are many safety issues and questions about whether it works. Learn more before trying it.
Breastfeeding and medications: What's safe?
Understand which medications are safe to take while breastfeeding.
Cleft lip and cleft palate
Surgery can fix openings or splits in the upper lip, or the roof of the mouth (palate), or both types of these birth defects.
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