As more women enter state prisons while pregnant, lawmakers and corrections officials are expanding prison nursery programs, ...

A new database targeting chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs) – a long-overlooked condition that may begin in childhood – ...

In recent years, Washington state has made two major policy changes to keep more birth families together. Since then, fewer ...

Objectives This paper examines the differential impact of responsive parenting and nutrition interventions on early child ...

Introduction Maternal and child mortality has markedly decreased worldwide over the past few decades. Despite this success, the decline remains unequal across countries and is overall insufficient to ...

Senior doctors, scientists, psychologists and medical ethics experts are urging ministers to halt a controversial NHS puberty ...

Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology found that when 5-year-old prereaders practiced writing by hand, they significantly outperformed children who typed the same ...

In “Livable Streets 2.0.” Donald Appleyard’s son, Bruce Appleyard, builds on his father’s seminal work and examines what it means today in an age of autonomous vehicles, modern policing technology, ...

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...

Scientists comment on the evidence around the benefits and harms of social media and social media bans on young people. Dr Holly Bear, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of ...

South Africa is a study in contrasts. And the 2026 public health agenda is no exception. Breakthrough HIV prevention medicine ...

Rising consumer demand for healthier products combined with intensifying scrutiny of better-for-you claims in 2025 by an advertising watchdog and industry competitors is raising the bar for how and ...