HEALTH CARE

While infants exposed to opioids during their mother's pregnancy have been linked to adverse health outcomes, a new study at...

Elementary school-age children who get less than nine hours of sleep per night have significant differences in certain brain regions...

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been...

Two in five eligible children in India are missing out on preventive vitamin A supplementation designed to ward off the...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused immense disruption in the lives of millions around the world. Businesses and schools...

Infants from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds who have positive newborn screening tests for cystic fibrosis received their diagnostic follow-up...

What do building pyramids, going to the moon, paddling a two-person canoe or dancing a waltz have in common? All...

With my first baby, I shared many of the same challenges as the other worried, overtired and overwhelmed new moms...

Ofsted has today published a report on the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children's social care, drawing on...

Differences in the growth, weight, and body fat levels of children conceived through fertility treatment are small, and no longer...

Attending daycare in the first three years of life is linked with an increase in lung complications in children who...

Multitasking is not just an office skill. It's key to functioning as a human, and it involves something called cognitive...

In a 2021 media statement released by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency provided...

Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries – threatening...