New research suggests that the more children are exposed to screens at age 1, the more likely they are to experience developmental delay in the years that follow. In a study looking at over 7,000 ...

Handing your baby a phone or tablet to play with may seem like a harmless solution when you're busy, but it could quickly affect their development, a new study has found. Having anywhere from one to ...

Autism has always been described as a spectrum, but for families, doctors, and educators, that word often feels too vague. It ...

Giving your phone or tablet to very young children to keep them occupied may seem like a good idea at the time, but experts advise looking for other ways to calm your kids. A study found that early ...

A new study linked screen time among children at age 1 with delays in certain developmental domains at ages 2 and 4. In a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers sought to ...

Could using television as a babysitter have adverse effects on a child? It’s possible, says a new study that finds the more time toddlers spend looking at screens — televisions, computers, tablets or ...

A new study, which raised concerns that COVID during pregnancy might significantly increase the risk of developmental delays in a child's first year of life, is receiving both praise and criticism.

Non-coding regions of DNA could hold the key to diagnosing developmental disorders in children, new research suggests. The study, by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Wellcome Centre ...

Protocols that allow the transformation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines into organoids have changed the way scientists can study developmental processes and enable them to decipher ...