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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Physicians use Body Mass Index (BMI) charts to help assess and monitor growth in children. The CDC recently announced a revised version of the children and adolescent BMI chart. The new chart has been ...