It's the rare parent who is at peace with the size of their infant. Most of us are somewhere between uneasy and distraught with how our babies plot on growth charts, no matter whether our children are ...

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but research suggests a spoon is a lousy way to measure out that medicine. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug ...

Purpose To evaluate the psychometric properties of a new multicultural weight-specific quality-of-life (QOL) measure for children and adolescents-Youth Quality-of-Life Instrument-Weight module (YQOL-W ...

In children on the spectrum, anxiety is often masked by the symptoms of autism. But a new variant to a standard anxiety screening method has now proven effective in separating the two and it is ...

Conversations surrounding blood pressure often are focused on adults. But a new study reveals just how important it is to measure children’s blood pressure to avoid the potential for misdiagnosis. A ...

Because obesity is a complex problem, we must be cautious when we accept easy answers for why children are gaining weight rapidly. Suppose we believe obesity is simply due to eating too much and not ...

A new method devised by a Drexel University professor to diagnose children on the spectrum for anxiety symptoms — which tend to be masked by symptoms of autism — was proven effective in a study ...