BEIRUT: An international training workshop on “New WHO Child Growth Standards” was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva in association with the WHO Collaborating Center for ...

The pediatric growth chart is "a terrific tool for health-care practitioners to track children's growth, which it was initially developed for, but the question is whether it should be used as an ...

For children, getting weighed and measured is a routine part of a visit to the doctor. Parents may notice that the nurse enters the information onto a growth chart where a little dot indicates where ...

At a typical pediatric visit, parents and clinicians examine where a child falls on growth charts that compare their height and weight to national averages. Now, a team of University of Maryland ...

Every child grows at their own pace, and growth charts show typical patterns but not exact paths. Most children follow a similar growth curve from birth to puberty, with varying periods of quick ...

For the first time since 1988, pediatric researchers have developed growth charts for children in the United States with Down sydrome. The new charts will allow pediatricians to compare each patient's ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Want to know if your child's height and weight are on track? Check the growth chart that the doctor gives you after each yearly checkup. Want to know if your child's brain is on ...