Having a food allergy as a baby is linked to asthma and reduced lung function later in childhood, according to a world first study. The research, led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute and ...

Infant weight and weight gain are positively associated with later obesity, but whether there is a particular critical time during infancy remains uncertain. In a cohort representing 28 340 children ...

The Williamsburg Indoor Sports Complex adds an infant care program and a music partnership with Mosley Music. (The WISC) WILLIAMSBURG – The WISC Kids Club is expanding its early childhood offerings ...

A study found that not being infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the first year of life was associated with a decreased risk of developing asthma in childhood. A study published by The ...

We don’t often talk about child care and paid parental leave in the same conversation when it comes to public policy.

An ongoing study of pregnant women and their babies has found that rapid weight gain during the first six months of life may place a child at risk for obesity by age three. Researchers studied 559 ...

The way obese women feed and interact with their children early in infancy might lay the foundations for obesity later in childhood. A small pilot study published this month in Nutrition Journal found ...

Receiving antibiotics during infancy is associated with developing asthma during childhood, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Researchers studied 152,622 children ...

It might seem a little counterintuitive, but the best time to start thinking about child care is before you have a baby. Infant and toddler care is the most expensive kind of child care and often the ...

The inconsolable crying some infants go through, known as colic, is associated with migraine headaches later in childhood, researchers report in the April 17 Journal of the American Medical ...