The researchers now provide the same thing for the brain: a growth chart to assess brain development and aging, not only for children, but across the lifespan from ages two to 100. “We have analyzed ...

Clothing sizes The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and pediatric health-care groups in Canada encourage parents to use growth charts as monitoring tools.

Growth charts are a kind of childhood ritual. With each immunization, public health nurses document a baby's head circumference, height and weight. But are they doing more harm than good?

As the human population increases and we build more and more infrastructure across the planet, there will be increasing overlap between humans and animals in the next 50 years. About 57 percent of ...

Study: Growth hormone-releasing hormone and its analogs in health and disease. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in the journal Nature Reviews Endocrinology ...

This runaway cell growth and accumulation of abnormal cells is called cancer. There are more than 200 types of cancer, with about 20 million new cases of cancer diagnosed globally each year.