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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new pediatric eye chart successfully measured visual acuity in patients aged 6 to 16 years with vision ranging ...

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 ...

When James and Rebecca Ortega brought their newborn daughter, Avery, to the pediatrician for her first visit last December, the doctor plotted her height, weight and head circumference on a growth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objectives: We reviewed potential patient safety events identified with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) Software to characterize clinical events associated ...

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 ...