When James and Rebecca Ortega of Alexandria, Va., brought their newborn daughter, Avery, to the pediatrician for her first visit last December, the doctor plotted her height, weight and head ...

For the first time since 1988, pediatric researchers have developed growth charts for children in the United States with Down sydrome. The new charts will allow pediatricians to compare each patient's ...

LITTLE ROCK — When James and Rebecca Ortega of Alexandria, Va., took their newborn daughter, Avery, to the pediatrician for her first visit last December, the doctor plotted her height, weight and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rolled out changes to growth charts adding categories for children and adolescents with severe obesity. The charts were based ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Last year, the CDC released new BMI-for-age growth charts for children. The CDC defines severe obesity as a BMI ...

As a pediatric endocrinologist, I am acutely aware of our country's surging and highly alarming childhood obesity rates. What has been a growing epidemic for decades has catapulted into a full-blown ...

The pediatric growth chart is "a terrific tool for health-care practitioners to track children's growth, which it was initially developed for, but the question is whether it should be used as an ...

The pediatric growth chart is "a terrific tool for health-care practitioners to track children's growth, which it was initially developed for, but the question is whether it should be used as an ...

When James and Rebecca Ortega of Alexandria, Va., brought their newborn daughter, Avery, to the pediatrician for her first visit last December, the doctor plotted her height, weight and head ...