Teens who use cannabis frequently more likely to have premature baby
Teenagers who use cannabis frequently may be more likely to have children born preterm, when they become parents up to...
Teenagers who use cannabis frequently may be more likely to have children born preterm, when they become parents up to...
Teenagers who use cannabis frequently may be more likely to have children born preterm, when they become parents up to...
Obstructive sleep apnea, a form of sleep-disordered breathing, is common in children and adolescents and may be associated with elevated...
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and UCL have shown that fetal membranes are able to heal after injury...
A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ) finds that...
A previously healthy infant who suffered aborted sudden cardiac death was found to have a de novo genetic mutation in...
A survey of more than 17,000 pregnant and lactating individuals who received the COVID-19 vaccine showed that the individuals did...
Preterm birth has been shown to increase the risk of autism spectrum disorders and other developmental problems, particularly in males....
The initials BRCA2 may be best known for a gene associated with many cases of breast cancer, and the protein...
Most children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) don't outgrow the disorder, as widely thought. It manifests itself in...
Most of us remember a time when we could eat anything we wanted and not gain weight. But a new...
An international study, led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London and St Bartholomew's Hospital, has found a unique...
Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research...
Contrary to the popular song, the neck bone is actually connected to one of 22 separate head bones that make...
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, in collaboration with the Karolinska...
Individuals who contract COVID-19 while pregnant face a higher risk of having a very preterm birth, as well as any...
An alarming percentage of children and adolescents are experiencing a global-wide mental crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic according to...
More than one-third of infant caregivers reported serving at least one non-recommended milk type to their infant in the past...
Cambridge scientists have grown beating heart cells in the lab and shown how they are vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection. In...
When new mothers complain that all those sleepless nights caring for their newborns are taking years off their life, they...
The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling into water, a University of...
Researchers from UCLA and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to detect a potentially life-threatening condition that can occur during...
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre researchers have made new findings which provide a broader understanding of how dormant hematopoietic stem cells...
A research group focused on embryos has begun its work in Finland, comprehensively surveying for the first time the short...
Rates of childhood obesity are at historically high levels in the U.S., yet there are few interventions that promote healthy...
While only one in five practicing surgeons in the U.S. is female, women are entering the surgical field in increasing...
Women have several choices for long-lasting, reversible contraceptives, but most options for men are either single-use, such as condoms, or...
A study by researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health shows that inexpensive and convenient devices such...
Drugs must be safe not just for the patients; in the case of pregnant patients, drugs must also be safe...
Babies who were breastfed, even for a few days, had lower blood pressure as toddlers and these differences in blood...
A new study from Oregon State University found that infants born within 3 kilometers of oil and natural gas drilling...
More than 1.5 million children around the world are estimated to have lost at least one parent, custodial grandparent, or...
Three decades ago, child development researchers found that low-income children heard tens of millions fewer words in their homes than...
New Curtin University-led research has called into question existing health advice that mothers wait a minimum of two years after...
When it comes to making eggs, female flies and female humans are surprisingly similar. And that could be a boon...
Messenger RNA vaccines against COVID-19 were not detected in human milk, according to a small study by UC San Francisco,...
NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "High daily screen time linked to cognitive, behavioral problems...
Write down the benefits of obtaining a college degree and, more than likely, all the items on the completed list...
Heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Although modern surgical techniques, diagnostics and...
The University of Alberta-led research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site....
Children exposed to elevated levels of air pollution may be more likely to have poor inhibitory control during late childhood...
New pain research finds what you say in the first minute after a vaccine can be key in reducing a...
The sensory cells in the inner ear and the touch receptors in the skin actually have a lot in common,...
Chemotherapy is widely used to treat cancer patients. During the treatment, chemotherapeutic agents affect various biochemical processes to kill or...
Babies younger than four weeks old, called neonates, were once thought not to perceive pain due to not-yet-fully-developed sensory systems,...
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found a vital mechanism, previously thought to have disappeared as mammals evolved, that...
Newborn infants and babies aged up to three months should be stimulated to manipulate objects and observe adults performing everyday...
If you've ever been to an eye doctor, there's a good chance you've felt the sudden puff of air to...
Children who eat slower are less likely to be extroverted and impulsive, according to a new study co-led by the...
A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University, Japan has discovered that muscles and the resident stem cells (satellite cells) responsible...
Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes...
Medical researchers led by Kyushu University have revealed a possible underlying genetic pathway behind the neurological dysfunction of Rett syndrome....
Most babies born prematurely or with health problems are quickly whisked away to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where...
Scientists at the University of Helsinki have found an essential factor from the extracellular matrix that regulates functionality of the...