What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

Learn how following the WHO growth curves may misdiagnose Inuit children's head sizes, leading to health disparities.

Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong. But growth ...

Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two ...

All values must be entered in order to calculate percentiles for Blood Pressure and Height. A percentile shows the relative position of the child's measurement (such as Blood Pressure or Height) among ...

Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two ...

The Harlem apartment where a 4-year-old malnourished boy suffered a nightmare existence before later dying at the hospital ...

In the early months of your baby’s life, this book is very important to you, as gauging your child’s growth is a key indicator that he is well and that he is drinking enough milk. In the past the ...

Effective treatment with dupilumab may allow younger children with severe atopic dermatitis and short stature to catch up on ...

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA Pregnancy weight gain standards are charts describing percentiles of weight gain among participants with ...