Using a second National Institutes of Health grant awarded this year, health promotion, education, and behavior assistant professor Leila Larson will examine the factors influencing childhood ...

Early exposure to online gaming significantly increases the risk of gaming addiction, emotional distress, and physical health ...

Considering that about 5% of Generation Z take antidepressants, could this explain why so many report a disinterest in dating and settling down?

A long-term study of Canadian adolescents suggests that being physically active may help protect against future symptoms of ...

Childhood obesity is a growing global crisis, with projections indicating over 250 million affected by 2030. This epidemic ...

Adoptees’ higher ADHD rates reflect genetic, prenatal, and social factors, highlighting the need for trauma-informed, ...

Sixteen million US children may lose food benefits this week. Research demonstrates that food insecurity has short-term and long-term effects on children's mental and physical health.

Once considered relatively rare but now a trend among pregnant women, gestational diabetes not only harms moms but also their ...

In the field of paediatrics, the concept of normal (ie, typical)—in contrast to different, special, deviant, delayed, or atypical—has imposed a problematic framework within which people view a child ...

KAGERA: PARENTS in Kagera Region and nationwide are urged to collaborate with teachers to tackle rising truancy and school ...

A husband's optimism and confidence may play a crucial, if often unseen, role in helping babies arrive healthy and on time.