Research shows Helping children develop healthy habits at a young age can help lower their risk for heart disease, stroke and other major health problems later in life. that a child’s cardiovascular ...

Friendships don’t just develop organically. Children learn through experience, reaction, and reflection, often in ways adults ...

Across the world, more than 200 million cases of malaria and nearly 500,000 deaths from the disease occur annually—more than 90 percent of which happen in Africa. Children in Africa can be diagnosed ...

Yet one simple habit continues to make a lasting difference: reading together. Reading aloud to children can be an accessible ...

It’s impossible not to think about the world they are growing into. And I don’t always feel hopeful about it. I have had to ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as ...

Will a child who's evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted? Early-childhood experts in Quebec say they've have come up with a better way to find ...

London | Scientists have discovered how young children naturally develop immunity to bacterial infection Strep A, a breakthrough that could speed up vaccine development and save up to half a million ...

New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...