Research at Karlstad University shows that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse life events during ...

The development of a child begins during pregnancy, when prenatal environmental factors and genetic influences interact to ...

The ECHO Cohort Consortium is a research program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the mission to enhance the health of children for generations to come. ECHO Cohort ...

A child’s blood pressure may be influenced by exposure to air pollution before and shortly after birth, according to a new study from the NIH-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes ...

While the rise in youth mental health problems has been widely appreciated, there remains a lot of debate about what specifically is behind it. Many popular articles and books implicate some more ...

Medical Watch Digest for Dec 18 Analyzing the impact of daycare on babies. Sending children to daycare has no significant impact on their mental health. The environmental influences on child health ...

Children of transgender and nonbinary parents demonstrate typical behavioral and emotional development, while their parents use effective parenting techniques comparable to those of cisgender parents, ...

Catherine Draper receives or has received funding from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the South African Medical Research Council, the Jacobs Foundation, and the European ...