University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

For the first time since 1988, pediatric researchers have developed growth charts for children in the United States with Down sydrome. The new charts will allow pediatricians to compare each patient's ...

The pediatric growth chart is "a terrific tool for health-care practitioners to track children's growth, which it was initially developed for, but the question is whether it should be used as an ...

That’s a question parents, pediatricians, educators, and caregivers ask over and over again as children grow and change. To help answer this important question, child development experts have created ...

Physicians use Body Mass Index (BMI) charts to help assess and monitor growth in children. The CDC recently announced a revised version of the children and adolescent BMI chart. The new chart has been ...

Developmental delays can affect a child’s physical, cognitive, communication, social, emotional, or behavioral skills. Often, delays affect more than one area of development. When a child has delays ...