Despite great advances in medicine and developmental science, pediatric health care has not evolved to address many of the current critical challenges to child and adolescent health. There is growing ...

If you’re a parent, you want your child to be healthy. You’ll do whatever it takes to get your child the care he or she needs. To do that, maybe you sign up for your employer’s insurance plan, or use ...

Social determinants of health, such as access to secure housing, family employment and economic stability, education, and child care, must be the focus of federal policies to support infant and ...

Dr. Dickens is a physiologist who studies stress and the founder of the Maternal Stress Project. Dr. Hutner is a reproductive psychiatrist and a co-founder of Phoebe, a mental health platform for ...

The findings, released by Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors and UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights group, ...

Avoiding doctor’s offices could have dire consequences beyond vaccination rates. Families are keeping children safe at home by heeding warnings to stay inside during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in ...

Advocates and state agency directors have pitched recommendations to Mississippi lawmakers on how to prioritize legislative funds for the health and well-being of women, children and families during ...