When people talk about autism, they often think about a child who is different and may be distressed by their surroundings. Or if the conversation moves beyond childhood, the focus might be about an ...

Williams, whose 2-year-old son succumbed to his injuries at NewYork-Presbyterian, says she tried to get the authorities to pay attention to the danger that Maliek’s father posed to their child.

A new study suggests that babies can distinguish between objects at 2 months old, earlier than scientists previously thought.

While this condition has historically been thought to affect men and boys more often, new research shows otherwise.

Lucas Adams and Shelby Wulfert are officially parents, as the Disney alums welcomed their first baby, a boy named Alonzo Brentley Adams, on Feb. 4. 'The Young and the Restless' star and his wife ...

From rare cancers caught early to dementia foretold decades in advance, newborn genomic testing raises an unsettling question ...

The revelations are part of the county’s Child Death Review Team’s examination of fatalities from 2021 to 2023, which found that most child deaths were preventable, that the isolation and stress ...

Autistic and narcissistic individuals can face social challenges in responding to others' emotions but the mechanisms that underlie their social experiences are fundamentally different.

A research team from the Department of Psychiatry at Tohoku University, led by Dr. Zhiqian Yu and Professor Hiroaki Tomita, ...

Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched <a href=" ...

In January, toymaker Mattel released the very first autistic Barbie doll. She’s wearing a loose purple dress and headphones.

In the academic year so far, the proportion of children who are “persistently absent” from schools in England – missing at least 10% of school sessions – stands at 19.5%. This is up from last year – ...