New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO25) in Malaga, Spain (11–14 May), reveals that 3 to 4-year-olds in rural areas are more likely to be living with overweight and abdominal obesity […]
US President Donald Trump’s administration has announced plans to withdraw prescription fluoride drugs for children, part of a growing movement reexamining public exposure to fluoride.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com
While breastfeeding has many benefits for a mother and her baby, it has one major drawback: It’s incredibly difficult to know how much milk the baby is consuming. To take the guesswork out of breastfeeding, […]
In 2023, nearly 19 million children in the United States were estimated to be living in a household with at least one parent or primary caregiver with a substance-use disorder (SUD), according to a research […]
Teenagers in rural and regional areas may not be receiving the level of contraceptive support they need, according to GPs interviewed in a new study from Monash University’s SPHERE Center of Research Excellence.This article was […]
Children who are living with severe obesity are more likely to experience a clinically relevant change in BMI when GLP-1 agonist drugs form part of their treatment, new research being presented at the European Congress […]
Even as Republicans in Congress walk back their most aggressive proposal to slash federal Medicaid spending, they are weighing other options that could force states to cut services for children and other vulnerable populations.This article […]
Both the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that infants exclusively breastfeed during their first six months of life, but only 24.9% in the United States do, according to Centers for […]
When we hear the word “dementia,” we usually think of memory loss in older adults. But there’s another, much rarer form of the disease that strikes far earlier in life—childhood dementia, also known as Batten […]
Scientists discovered that a previously uncharacterized subset of immune cells may play a critical role in the development of allergic diseases and explain differences between urban and rural populations. The finding, published in the journal […]
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