The first 1,000 days of a child's life—pregnancy and the months leading to their second birthday—are a critical time.

A new series featuring the work of a University of Wollongong (UOW) early childhood expert has shined a light on the 'next ...

Child development impacted by environmental factors, highlighting importance of early childhood care and education programs ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University analysed data from over 3,500 mother-child pairs to find a potential link between exposure ...

A new Lancet paper highlights the critical 'next 1,000 days' for child development in LMICs, emphasizing the need for ...

In a global landscape defined by polycrisis, children are being failed. To address this failure, we ask an ambitious yet fundamental question: how do we create child-inclusive societies where every ...

The centrality of the first 1000 days—from conception to 2 years of age—for early childhood development is recognised in global research, policy, and practice as a crucial period for physical growth ...

Early Childhood Week is underway, and advocates say governments need to do more to address the issue of inequality.

We all start our lives as symmetric balls of cells. In humans, during the first few weeks after fertilization, embryonic ...

A new study from researchers at Kumamoto University sheds light on a potential link between exposure to certain everyday chemicals during pregnancy and the development of asthma in children. The study ...

A study found that eating fish during pregnancy was linked to a 20% lower risk of autism in children, especially in girls, ...

Researchers find a link between early vocabulary composition and later language development in children with cochlear implants.