Doctors and other health professionals in the United States began using growth charts in 1977. Over time, pediatricians began routinely sharing them with parents, a practice that probably grew ...

Growth charts are just a guide – While they show averages for weight and height, each child’s growth pattern is unique, and doctors use them to track progress rather than compare kids.

The first “national” growth charts were produced in 1977 and pulled height, weight and head circumference measurements from large cross-country health surveys.

It’s “just” an electronic growth chart. But lurking inside is a disruptive new approach to medicine. In a world where organ transplants and MRIs are commonplace, pediatric growth charts don ...

The Numbers: When it comes to measuring the health of babies and young children, a growing body of research—controversial though it is—says one size fits all. Others say ethnicity and country ...

Visits to a pediatrician next year might look a little different thanks to a new growth curve chart slated to be released in the spring of 2006. And a Calvin College professor is currently working in ...

"Nearly everybody is familiar with the growth charts used to measure child development, for example the growth charts developed by the World Health Organization," says Andre Marquand, researcher ...

The researchers now provide the same thing for the brain: a growth chart to assess brain development and aging, not only for children, but across the lifespan from ages two to 100. “We have analyzed ...