HEALTH CARE

While typical consent education in secondary schools may rationalize or provide a 'road map' for consent, teenage boys feel uncertain...

When Louana Joseph's son had a seizure because of an upper respiratory infection in July, she abandoned the apartment her...

A program that combines computer-based and driving simulator training may reduce the proportion of crashes and near crashes among teens...

Children who are exposed to the Zika virus while in the womb, but who are not subsequently diagnosed with Zika-related...

The physical and emotional harm caused by commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and youth has been well documented...

Previous studies have reported age-related differences in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tolerance and responsiveness, with younger individuals tending to have...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers reported that pandemic fatigue...

The number of surgeries performed on Black, Latino, and Asian children is significantly lower than among white children in the...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers used ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequence data to understand the association between...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-infected individuals display a wide range of clinical variations, from asymptomatic infection to lethal...

A large number of health-related benefits of probiotics have led to the development of a new discipline called probiogenomics, which...

In a recent BMC Medicine journal study, researchers estimate the age-varying susceptibility to infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus...

School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have "severely ruptured" the social and emotional development of some of the world's poorest...

Using MRI data from the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States, researchers have...