With the parents gone away, the children have time to play -- and eat, according to new research that examines the health of the millions of Chinese children left with...
...said. The study didn't investigate reasons for seeking exemption, but other studies suggest some mothers in affluent communities may believe they can adequately protect their children through "intensive parenting techniques"...
...embryo’s cells from further viral infection. I'm often struck by how much parenting is like research. It's a (seemingly) never-ending, but very rewarding, job. And for both, there's clearly always...
...Research Program, offers these tips: Be flexible Parenting is all about flexibility. Just as you plan on going on a trip, but something happens and you find yourself modeling to...
“Our children are in trouble because we’ve outsourced the job of feeding them,” says Stanford child nutrition expert Maya Adam, MD. To tackle the problem, Adam is spreading a refreshing...
When I first met Erica Medina in 2012, she was already practiced at living in two worlds. Then 17, she loved the ordinary teenage realm of high school classes, basketball...
Teenagers with bulimia nervosa benefit from their parents' help in stopping their eating disorder. In fact, a therapy that involves parents works better for teens than one that does not,...
It's been my experience that women struggle with their body image at some point on the way from girlhood to womanhood - this may be brief and exploratory, or get...
Smoking can make it more difficult to get pregnant and it can contribute to complications after conception and endanger the health of babies as they grow. For these reasons, many...
For many low-income children, a pediatrician is the only professional they interact with before they start kindergarten. This fact inspired Jecca Steinberg, a second-year Stanford medical student and Schweitzer Fellow,...
Thanks to recent advances in medicine, technology and research, most premature babies born in the United States face better odds of surviving than ever before. Yet, the number of premature...
When I was younger, the prevailing parenting advice regarding athletics and children was to identify a sport your child would enjoy early on and have them focus on it throughout...
Today's teenagers are familiar with the dangers of smoking conventional cigarettes, but they're much less sure of the risks posed by marijuana and e-cigarettes, according to a Stanford study published...
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. Once a month, patients affected...
Imagine a prehistoric human mother raising her baby outside of any community or family structure, with no help from others. It sure doesn't fit with my idea of the "village"...
A tiny fraction of babies born at 22 weeks of gestation survive to childhood without major impairments or disabilities, according to a study recently published in the New England Journal...
