NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children and teenagers who complain of chest pain only rarely have a heart problem causing it, a study published Monday suggests. What's more, researchers say, relatively ...

For the 7-item history questions, responses to the questions related to cough, shortness of breath and wheezing were classified as positive if the respondent answered ‘almost every day’ or ‘several ...

Boston, Mass. —Employing a unique quality improvement methodology, called Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plans (SCAMPs), physicians have demonstrated that chest pain in children, ...

When a child complains about chest pain, it’s easy for parents to panic and assume it’s a heart problem or pneumonia. But it’s much more likely to be something less serious like costochondritis or ...

Studies have consistently shown that most chest pain experienced in childhood and adolescence is not cardiac in nature. Therefore, chest pain in children does not have the same concerning connotation ...

Q: My 6-year-old son has recently begun to tell me that he feels his heart tingle. When I ask more about it, he says it's when he's nervous, excited, worried or about to "attack" the girls clubhouse ...

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in Pediatrics shows that chest pains in children are rarely a cause for concern and are not usually a sign of an underlying heart condition. More often than ...

Children in all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accidents are likely to suffer chest injuries, many of them serious, according to a new study. Children in all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accidents are likely to ...

Chest pain in children usually has a benign etiology. Most patients will have a normal physical exam or findings consistent with a musculoskeletal origin (e.g., chest-wall tenderness); these patients ...