Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in ...

The U.S. is changing which vaccines are recommended for children, slashing the number of shots endorsed for everyone and ...

In her State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose that the default setting for online platforms should ban ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services describes behavioral disorders as involving “a pattern of disruptive behaviors in children that last for at least 6 months and cause problems in school ...

Babies and young children are sponges that soak in practically everything in their environments. It’s true! Even during story time, their minds are at work, taking in all the language they hear and ...

Researchers have been looking at how children from single-parent and two-parent families fare in life. So what did they find? Family life is more richly varied than ever before. A growing proportion ...

Conflict in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan has led to millions of children losing family members, fleeing their homes and being caught up in the fighting themselves. The effects could last for decades. When ...