Portsmouth working group on childcare seeks solutions to high cost and low availability of childcare with long waitlists.

Working moms are carrying the weight of America's child care crisis. New research reveals why supporting child care is a ...

Archaic human parents had to look after helpless infants like modern-day parents do, according to new research. Human babies ...

Weak necks, soft spots, and underdeveloped brains make our babies much less independent than other great apes.

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests ...

In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), gains in child survival reveal an important reality: birth defects account for a growing share of deaths among children younger than 5 years and ...

Research led by the University of Granada (UGR) paves the way for new intervention and monitoring strategies for this high-risk population.

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A study by UCR public policy scholars suggests locally tailored infant health strategies to increase breastfeeding rates may be more effective than a one-size-fits-all national effort.

Healthy, breastfed infants who receive iron supplementation show fewer aggressive behaviors at age 3 compared with children who did not receive supplementation, according to new research from Umeå ...

Doctors at Children’s National Hospital in D.C. will talk about projects used to champion under-resourced women and children Drawing on leading research in fetal and neonatal neuroscience, the ...

A new analysis of chemicals in U.S. infant formula found reassuringly low levels of heavy metals, pesticides and other potential contaminants, federal health officials said Wednesday. The review was ...