By JENNIFER DEAN, The Press-Enterprise

Parents of autistic children feel they are "financially drowning," a new study by the non-profit agency Easter Seals finds. Worry over medical and therapy costs, as well as time missed from work, preys on the minds of parents and the children they care for.

Sometimes stumbling blocks to reading development can't be attributed to a learning disability or concentration issues. A recent government report found that one in 20 students may suffer from a childhood eye-muscle coordination problem called convergence insufficiency, or CI.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released the first federal study focused on childhood food allergies -- with surprising results.

As foreclosure signs multiply, some children are in need of protection.That's what school district offices and other agencies are working to provide -- as well as a sense of stability in precarious times.

LOMA LINDA, Calif. -- If you want to know about something, you go to the expert, right? Someone who has been there, done that.That's exactly what Dan Buettner did when he decided to search the globe to find groups of people living the longest.