HEALTH CARE

Scientists have known for decades that pregnancy requires a mother's body to adjust so that her immune system does not...

A follow-up study found unfavorable changes in glucose metabolism, HDL cholesterol levels, and body mass index in adolescents whose physical...

Puberty in both girls and boys with type 1 diabetes has shifted forward over the last two decades, according to...

About one million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage each year. Additionally, about 20,000 end at or after...

The No. 1 cause of death in children is trauma. There are an estimated 2,000 pediatric deaths from traumatic bleeding...

Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of the top of the skull in infants, is caused by an abnormal excess of a...

Hyperdiploidy is a genetic condition observed in cancer cells, where the cells contain more chromosomes than usual. The condition is...

The commonly-held belief that attempting to suppress negative thoughts is bad for our mental health could be wrong, a new...

Jeffrey Raskin, MS, MD, a neurosurgeon at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, performed the first ever...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded $3.1 million to the University of Arkansas...

In a recent study published in BMC Public Health, researchers reported ways in which underage adolescents acquire electronic cigarettes (ECs)...

A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health suggests that vaping increases the risk of asthma...

A recent eBioMedicine study found key risk factors associated with the development of melanoma in children and adolescents. Study: UV-radiation and MC1R...

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers developed an innovative autism spectrum disorder (ASD) detection technique for...