Children exposed to maternal smoking before birth are more likely to experience behavioral and mental health challenges, ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the link between exposure to PFAS and the development of asthma. The results show that among children whose mothers had very high levels of ...

India, April 10 -- Maternal smoking during gestation affects the combined emotional and behavioral mental health of the ...

The numbers are sobering: nearly 80% of the world's teenagers don't get enough physical activity, according to the World ...

Rising awareness of autism spectrum disorder is prompting parents and doctors to focus on early childhood development and ...

(Rebecca Nelson/DigitalVision/Getty Images) Twins appear to experience developmental delays in early childhood compared with ...

The gut microbiome and epigenetics-molecular switches that turn genes on or off-are intertwined, and both contribute to ...

Military families are homeschooling at twice the civilian rate. New data, policy shifts, and Pentagon review raise questions ...

Our new study shows that in one of these at-risk communities, children were more likely to develop asthma if their mothers ...

Is excessive screen time leading to extreme behavioural changes in children? Are the changes being linked to autistic ...