Sasha Shunk spends story time with the children in her home-based child care program in Portland, Maine. Credit: Courtesy Sasha Shunk The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but research suggests a spoon is a lousy way to measure out that medicine. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug ...

Because obesity is a complex problem, we must be cautious when we accept easy answers for why children are gaining weight rapidly. Suppose we believe obesity is simply due to eating too much and not ...

Measuring a child's kidney function has traditionally been time-consuming, costly, and difficult to perform, but a new equation that uses parameters collected at routine office visits can effectively ...

While the HCAHPS survey is useful to collect and evaluate information on patient experience among adult hospitalized patients, the healthcare industry had been lacking a similar tool to measure ...

A total of 19 studies met the criteria for this review. Twenty-three instruments were identified in the reported studies. These studies and instruments are summarized in Table 1. Five studies reported ...

A sales tax measure that would provide more subsidized child care and preschool for low income children in Alameda County was upheld by the Alameda County Superior Court Thursday. Measure C was passed ...