About 34 per cent of children aged under 5 are stunted, while 15 per cent are underweight, the government on Wednesday informed the Parliament, citing its ‘Poshan Tracker' data. In a written reply in ...

At the University of Oslo, psychologists and collaborators following Norwegian families identified a sizable group of ...

Children whose bones are "older" than their chronological age may be at an increased risk of hypertension, according to a new study. As a result, the investigators suggest that markers of biological ...

Father with daughter on shoulders walking at beach. The top concern facing parents today isn’t their child’s safety. It isn’t the worry that they’ll become addicted to drugs or alcohol, and it isn’t ...

The University of Edinburgh-led study examined health visitor reports on 258,000 children between March 2020 and August 2021.

From 2000 to 2020, the overall population fell by about 20 percent, but the number of children dropped by half—from 34,289 to ...

The adolescent birth rate has reached another record low, the death rate for children between ages 1 and 4 is the lowest ever, according to a yearly compendium of statistics from federal agencies ...

Among toddlers, spending a lot of time staring at screens is linked with poorer performance on developmental screening tests later in childhood, according to a new study. The study, published in the ...