A new study has found that adolescence doesn’t just last through our teens and early twenties, but in fact continues into our ...

Phase one –the “childhood phase” — lasts until age nine, per the study. During this window, the brain’s wealth of synapses – ...

Scoliosis and its treatment can cause pain and affect a person’s self-image, physical abilities, and social interactions. These and other factors can contribute to or worsen depression, especially in ...

Each day a child breathes wildfire smoke thick with ash and fine soot that child’s likelihood of experiencing anxiety and depression and other mental health problems increases, according to new ...

Delay of the Diagnostic Lumbar Puncture and Intrathecal Chemotherapy in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Who Undergo Routine Corticosteroid Testing: Tokyo Children’s Cancer Study Group Study ...

People diagnosed with autism in early childhood may have genetic and developmental differences from those diagnosed in late childhood and onwards. This is the finding of researchers from the ...

In two previous posts, I have written about the importance of night-to-night regularity of sleep timing for children and adolescents. I described studies that linked irregular sleep to metabolic ...

Childhood, adolescent, and young adult (CAYA) survivors of cancer are at risk of nephrotoxicity. Surveillance guidelines are important for timely diagnosis and treatment of these survivors, which ...