ICAP in Sierra Leone launches new school policy guidelines for integrating health, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene services into preschool centers in the country.
First Ladies and their senior advisors from countries across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East will participate in this high-level executive leadership program.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences named Frederica Perera recipient of the 19th Annual Spirit Lecture Award, recognizing her contributions to science and community engagement.
Children with elevated exposure to early life stress in the home and elevated prenatal exposure to air pollution exhibited heightened symptoms of attention and thought problems.
Scientists have uncovered a link between prenatal exposure to phthalates—a ubiquitous group of plasticizers and odor-enhancing chemicals—and deficits in motor function in girls.
Researchers found lagging motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were severely overweight while pregnant.