A new study of mortality rates among children younger than 5 years old in Brazil shows that children with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) had a 13-fold higher risk of death compared with those without ...

Daryl Nicholls, 30, told Newsweek she was "pleasantly surprised" when the hat fit her newborn son, not realizing what that meant for his health.

However, in cases of Zika virus infection, microcephaly and brain calcifications, with simplification of the cerebral convolutions, are present on the first day of life (Figure 2).

Children with ADHD are often bright, spontaneous, and caring. But parenting them is not without its challenges. Behavioral problems—from forgetting to do chores to outright defiance—can be ...

Two recent studies, including one published today in Pediatrics, show that exposure to the Zika virus (ZIKV) in utero can ...

According to the Pew Research Center, the average American family downsized from 3.7 children in 1960 to 1.9 currently, and about 20 percent of households with children are one-child families.

AUTS2 syndrome patients often exhibit microcephaly, yet its etiological mechanism remains unclear. This study reveals that murine AUTS2 promotes H3K27 trimethylation to suppress gene transcription and ...

We report on a father and son who have an interstitial deletion of 5p14. The father is clinically and mentally normal while the son has significant clinical involvement including microcephaly, ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as ...

But UNICEF is reaching millions of children caught in these crises every day with health care, nutrition, protection, education and other life-sustaining support. Looking to the year ahead ...

Elon Musk’s brood just keeps growing. The Tesla mogul has at least 12 children with three women. Musk welcomed six kids with his first wife, Justine Wilson, three with his ex-girlfriend Grimes ...