I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – solution to the ...

Spending too much time on screens may cause emotional and behavioral problems in children—and those problems can lead to even more screen use, according to research published in the journal ...

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Are American kids eating the wrong foods? It’s a question parents and ...

As many as 30% of children and teens across the world were nearsighted in 2023, a new study has revealed. Diagnoses of nearsightedness (myopia) are expected to worsen over the next two decades, ...

More babies and children survive the wait for a heart transplant than in the past, but improvements are due to better medical care, not changes to waitlist rules, a new study finds. The method used ...

(BPT) - Although you may not think of children when you imagine someone with heart problems, congenital heart defects are actually the most common birth defect in the U.S., occurring in about 1% of ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...