Why Does Early Health Matter? The biology of health explains how experiences and environmental influences “get under the skin” and interact with genetic predispositions. The resulting physiological adaptations or disruptions affect lifelong outcomes in learning, behavior, and both physical and mental well-being. Science tells us: Early experiences are built into our bodies, creating biological “memories” […]
Children’s health, or pediatrics, focuses on the well-being of children from conception through adolescence. It is vitally concerned with all aspects of children’s growth and development and with the unique opportunity that each child has to achieve their full potential as a healthy adult. Children’s health was once a subset of adult medicine. In the 19th and […]
The Environmental Protection Agency is cutting off its funding of a network of research centers that focus on the risks to children from toxic chemicals and industrial pollution. E&E News reports that the cuts will endanger important studies underway at 13 colleges and universities from California to New Hampshire. The decision ends a 20-year collaboration between […]