A large, decades-long study suggests that signs of ADHD in childhood may have consequences that extend well beyond school and ...

People who have ADHD traits at age 10 are more likely than those without such traits to have physical health problems and to ...

More girls are hitting puberty at eight or earlier. Researchers are exploring the causes, the consequences and what should be done.

Group A: Team Australia, Team Philippines, Team Korea, Group B: Team Mongolia, Team Japan, Team Turkey. Group A was up first. There were four games in the Team Representative Match. The teams were ...

Getting older comes with many changes, not the least of which are occasional memory lapses, which tend to worry many people in the moment. These cognitive changes can be totally normal, so there is no ...

Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

For most of the past year, Caltrans contractors have conducted a far-from-routine physical on an 89-year-old patient: the monumental western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. In a process ...

Tech billionaires Michael and Susan Dell announced Tuesday that they are pledging $6.25 billion to create some 25 million additional "Trump Accounts" for children across the country. These accounts ...

In early adolescence, smartphone ownership is associated with depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in Pediatrics. Ran Barzilay, M.D., Ph.D., from ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

Teens were more likely to seek medical care when they used marijuana, researchers said Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's ...

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong. I've been covering the tech industry, ...