HEALTH CARE

With rising prevalence of depression in adolescents, screening requirements are increasingly falling on pediatric primary care providers, who are encountering...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Medical Virology, Italian researchers investigated the presence of severe acute respiratory...

The scoring results of widely used depression-screening tools should be carefully adjusted to better detect the condition in teenagers with...

Children are more likely to develop asthma if their father was exposed to second-hand smoke when he was a child,...

Breathing particulate matter (i.e., tiny particles suspended in the air) air pollution may trigger irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) in healthy...

Consuming vegetables is important for the health and development of children. Several economically-developed countries have implemented public health strategies that promote...

Most parents have experienced frustration when their infants cry excessively and refuse to sleep. Scientists have found that the best...

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a 113% increase in the "Years of Life Lost" among adolescents and...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, researchers assessed how calorie or energy intake (EI) time influences...

Vaccines are among the most successful advancements in modern medicine, with several successfully protecting against polio, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough,...

Adolescents who experience a concussion in the past 12 months could be 25% more likely to be in poor academic...

Pesticides are abundantly used throughout the world, both in farming practices and domestically. Yet, despite their widespread use, there is...

Prenatal cannabis exposure following the middle of the first trimester—generally after five to six weeks of fetal development—is associated with...

A recent study published in Frontiers in Neurology found that the most common long COVID symptoms in the pediatric population showed a...