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(The Conversation) – Typically, about 1 in 6 children experience a developmental delay. But children born during the pandemic, a 2022 study has found, have nearly twice the risk of developmental ...

(CNN) - New evidence shows some babies born shortly before and during the pandemic may be developmentally behind. According to studies from the JAMA Network, there is an uptick in delays like talking, ...

Early brain development lays the foundation for lifelong health and success. But disruptions to a child's early environment ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Kaiser Permanente is warning parents and teachers to prepare for an especially intense cold and flu season, particularly for young children who are entering kindergarten or preschool.

One minute, the four-year-old boy was giggling. The school's new behavioral specialist made a game of helping him put on his shoes, playfully sniffing them then scrunching up her face in pretend ...

It’s been five years since the pandemic first started, but parents who had kids in 2020 don’t forget so easily. Especially now, as those “pandemic babies” head off to kindergarten. As for me, my son ...

I gave birth to my third and final baby on April 3, 2020. While that was a memorable time for me because of the arrival of my son, almost everyone knows exactly where they were on that date because of ...

Pregnant women who were stressed out during the Covid pandemic gave birth to babies with smaller brains, according to the results of a study that has been immediately slammed as 'alarmist' by British ...

U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 rise was mainly due to the waning pandemic, Centers for Disease ...