The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is revising the labeling of all extended-release attention-deficit/hyperactivity ...

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

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If you're looking for a child's BMI, use BMI percentile, which estimates a child or young person's weight compared with his or her peers of the same age, height, and sex.

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HealthDay News — Children on the path to obesity can be detected as early as age 3.5 years, according to a study published online May 22 in JAMA Network Open. Chang Liu, Ph.D., from Washington State ...

What is the legal age to stay home alone by state? Only 14 out of 50 states have legal age restrictions for children left at home alone, many of which are just guidelines, according to the Child ...