When pregnant women are at risk for having a premature birth, prenatal steroids appear to help. The steroids seem to improve survival rate and limit brain injury in infants born as early as 23 weeks of pregnancy.

Before getting pregnant, women should make sure that they are in good health. An unhealthy mother is more likely to have an unhealthy baby. This may be especially true for women with diabetes.

Four times as many obese children are in the U.S. today as there were in the 1970s - but the availability of snacks at school besides school meals shows little signs of decreasing.

Parents who opt to let their babies feed themselves with finger foods during baby-led weaning - rather than spoon-feeding them pureed food - may end up with healthier kids.

A review of twenty years worth of research reveals that physically punishing kids probably does more harm than good and appears to increase kids' aggression.

One method for reducing childhood obesity among the highest risk kids may be as simple as teaching parents positive parenting techniques, such as using praise and healthy discipline.

Viagra is known to boost men’s sexual vigor, but it can also treat a totally different type of condition in children: One small study says that the drug can diminish the size of a birth defect in kids.

A recently available blood test already known to detect Down syndrome in unborn babies can also detect two other serious chromosomal disorders as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy.

Parents of high school football players take note: it's not the one big hit that poses the greatest risk to their teens' brains - it's the smaller hits from regular practices and games.

Whether ketchup counts as a vegetable or not, kids should be seeing healthier options in school cafeterias soon, following the first overhaul of school lunch standards in over 15 years.