One sad way childhood was never the same after the 1980s was a heightened sense of paranoia caused by the stranger-danger ...

The RESPOND trial adapted to COVID-19 disruptions by shifting to a cluster-parallel randomized design, enabling analysis ...

William J. Heerman, M.D., M.P.H., from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues compared the effectiveness of adding a digital childhood obesity prevention ...

And importantly, obesity prevention is on the agenda. Ard said, “we’ve always had a strong contingent group of investigators who are looking at strategies for prevention, and obviously that ...

A study co-led by a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center clinician-researcher shows that adding text messaging and other electronic feedback to traditional in-clinic health counseling for parents about ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Infants whose families received ongoing text message-based health behavior counseling in addition to clinic-based counseling showed healthier weight trajectories than those whose ...

Dr. Perrin co-led a study that shows adding text messaging and digital feedback alongside traditional health counseling can help to prevent obesity in very young children. This, in turn, prevents life ...

Prevention is better than cure, and that has never been truer than at a time when our health as a population is poor, including high rates of obesity, and many of our problems are preventable.

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

A Husker researcher is leading a first-of-its-kind project to help rural children establish healthy eating habits to lay the ...