Like many new parents, you might be wondering if your baby is growing at a healthy rate. Questions like "What is the average newborn weight?" or "How much should a 1-year-old weigh?" are common. While ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Reversing a trend of nearly five decades, birth weight in the U.S. may be on the decline, according to a new study. From 1990 to 2005, birth weight decreased by 52 grams (1 ...
Neonatal intensive care units are admitting more babies of all sizes, meaning that NICUs are increasingly caring for normal birth weight and term infants, according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics. The ...
EDMONTON, Alberta (CTV Network) — Boys born weighing less than a kilogram are 4.6 years older biologically later in life than men of the same age who were born at a normal birth weight, according to a ...
The study covered in this summary was published in ResearchSquare as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. In a study of just over 4000 middle-aged women in China, researchers found: A ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During adolescence, girls but not boys may be more likely to develop depression if they were born weighing less than about 5.5 pounds, new research suggests. "Parents and ...