Excessive sugar consumption in childhood is linked to long-term health problems, including heart disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Children who ...

Parents often ask about blood tests during routine pediatric visits, but pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies that healthy children rarely need them. She shares some of the criteria for ...

Kids are not as healthy as they once were in the U.S., according to a study published in the journal JAMA. Several health metrics have shown a marked decline since 2007, including the prevalence of ...

American children’s health has declined profoundly over the past few decades, a new study shows, and the issues are so serious that children in the US are dying at a much higher rate than those in ...

Food scarcity—the unreliable access to adequate, nutritious food—affects approximately 44 million Americans, including 13 million children. While hunger’s physical consequences receive significant ...

The health of an expectant mother is very fragile. There are many different aspects one needs to be aware of, especially since it is not just the mother's health that is affected, but also that of the ...

Much of the previous literature on the intergenerational effects of ACEs is limited by small sample sizes from a single health system, city, or state. To our knowledge, only one previous study used ...

Child health insurance covers medical expenses incurred on hospitalization, vaccination, and clinical check-ups of children. Increase in food adulteration, pollution, and poor lifestyle & food habits, ...

New research from the University of Toronto found that childhood neglect, even in the absence of childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse, is linked with a wide range of mental and physical health ...