SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday forming two task forces, both aimed at addressing mental health issues in children, primarily those in foster care.

CINCINNATI (WKRC)-- For the first time, an influential task force recommends screening all children eight and older for anxiety. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made the recommendation. The ...

My niece went off to college and was crammed into a dorm room with three other young women. She would regale me with horror stories about how her roomies would leave dirty dishes throughout the space, ...

A panel of experts has updated their recommendations for doctors screening children for obesity. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends intensive behavioral interventions for kids aged ...

Parents are much less likely to intervene when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities, according to a new study ...

A national advisory organization has come down on the side of behavioral interventions, not obesity medications, to help children 6 and older with high BMI improve their health, wading into the debate ...

Nearly 20% of all children in the US have what’s considered to be a high body mass index, the measure that practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. New draft guidelines released ...

For the first time, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended screening for anxiety in children 8 and older. In its final recommendations, published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA, ...

New research led by the University of St Andrews has shown that children perform cognitive tasks faster on their own in ...