Smartphones are widely owned by children in America, with a Pew Research Center survey finding that 95% of teens ages 13-17 have one, as do nearly 60% of 11- to 12-year-olds and roughly one third of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted children's education, recreation, and social lives, but it also increased the ...

Healthy people are injecting tiny doses of obesity medication to look and feel even better. But at what danger?

You might have noticed that lots of drugs have special children’s formulas, and you might think that’s because smaller people ...

Children who are given a smartphone before age 12 are at higher risk of insufficient sleep, obesity and depression, a new ...

Children who own smartphones by age 12 are at higher risk of lack of sleep, obesity and depression, a new study published ...

Multicomponent physical activity interventions were generally associated with positive outcomes among pediatric patients with obesity.

In general, the BMI calculation is a good indicator of excess fatness. But not always, especially if the person is heavily muscled. By BMI standards, athletes and other heavily muscled individuals may ...

Objectives To identify caregiver burden profiles among informal caregivers of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes ...

A father and three others have been charged with child neglect after a 14-year-old girl Wisconsin girl was found weighing ...

Obesity should not be considered a barrier for a patient who needs a shoulder replacement procedure, researchers argued in a ...

In the United States, approximately 14.7 million children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19 are living with ...