New York, October 28: Antipsychotic drugs in children may cause excessive weight gain as an adverse side effect, suggests the findings of a new study.

New Carolina, August: 20 A new research refutes the popularly held policy by America’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) that those eligible for the first shots of flu vaccine should be children between the age of six months and 19, pregnant women and those with underlying health issues at the risk of facing severe complications from an influenza.

Columbia, July9: A new study from the University of Missouri explores the role of obesity as a contributing factor to isolation, loneliness and depression in children especially girls beginning as early as kindergarten.