New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in infancy may increase their risk of having chronic disease in later life.

The health secretary fired all of the members of the esteemed panel this month, replacing them with his own picks, including vaccine skeptics.

All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel Overall, the meeting was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments.

UC Davis graduate health professions students from socially disadvantaged groups are more likely to have had encountered adversity in their childhood.

At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines.

LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is working to prevent and treat childhood obesity in the state through its Greaux Healthy Initiative.

Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law last week that the nonprofit Healthier Colorado says will advance early childhood health priorities in the state.

The US Department of Health and Human Services is reinstating more than 450 employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were fired as part of a massive reorganization in ...

A suspected link between childhood trauma and the risk of developing endometriosis in later life was strengthened Wednesday with the publication of study that showed a connection between the two.

The Independent Health Foundation remains committed to combating childhood obesity through education, innovative programming and meaningful community partnerships.