Every child grows differently – It's totally normal for kids to be bigger or smaller than others at the same age. What's more important is that they grow steadily over time. Growth charts are just a ...

Visits to a pediatrician next year might look a little different thanks to a new growth curve chart slated to be released in the spring of 2006. And a Calvin College professor is currently working in ...

A new study suggests that most parents don't know how to read the charts and may think a child's weight is perfectly fine, when, in fact, the child is obese ...

Picture this: In the same pediatrician’s office, two little boys happen to have their 3-year-old well visit on the same day. Both start with a nurse, who weighs them and measures their height. Then ...

For children, getting weighed and measured is a routine part of a visit to the doctor. Parents may notice that the nurse enters the information onto a growth chart where a little dot indicates where ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Want to know if your child's height and weight are on track? Check the growth chart that the doctor gives you after each yearly checkup. Want to know if your child's brain is on ...

It wasn’t until one of Benke’s friends confided that her own daughter had recently been diagnosed with Pediatric Growth ...

Every child grows at their own pace, and growth charts show typical patterns but not exact paths. Most children follow a similar growth curve from birth to puberty, with varying periods of quick ...