Editor’s Note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is ...

From their first smile and initial mumbles of baby talk to their first wobbly steps, a child’s “firsts” are such an exciting time for parents. However, important developmental milestones include more ...

Dr. Paul Lipkin specializes in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, where he directs medical outpatient services.

(HealthDay)—Screen your young child early and often for developmental delays. That's the message behind updated checklists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American ...

As a new parent, it’s important to you that your child meets all the expected developmental milestones, like walking and talking. But which milestones are backed by research, and how do you know if ...

TUESDAY, May 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- From their first smile to their first step to the first day of school, children go through a remarkable transformation on their way to adulthood. Here, ...

Terms like "child development milestones" can cause anxiety in some parents. It's natural to compare your child's skills to the ones of children around their age, but doing so rarely yields good ...

CLAIM: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly lowered the milestones for early childhood development in response to the pandemic. THE FACTS: Experts relied on research done prior to ...

The CDC recently revised its developmental milestone checklists for infants and young children for the first time in nearly 20 years. The revision included adjusting the milestone benchmarks to ...

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Infants and toddlers should be screened more for developmental delays, according to updated US guidelines released last week. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy ...