With all those lines and numbers, growth charts seem like they should come with instructions. Dr. Lisa Thornton decodes these charts and explains why they're important to your child's growth. For ...

For parents, a visit to the pediatrician usually involves a discussion of where their child falls on a growth chart established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, in a bid for ...

Growth charts for children with rare genetic disorders - giving healthcare professionals and families clearer guidance on how a child is developing - have been created by an international team, led by ...

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 ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

Like many new parents, you might be wondering if your baby is growing at a healthy rate. Questions like "What is the average newborn weight?" or "How much should a 1-year-old weigh?" are common. While ...

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 ...

At a typical pediatric visit, parents and clinicians examine where a child falls on growth charts that compare their height and weight to national averages. Now, a team of University of Maryland ...