New studies indicate that young kids may be exposed to toxic chemicals while they sleep, but experts say parents can take practical steps to avoid that.

Along with answering back and leaving dirty dishes in their room, sleeping in until noon is a habit that often earns ...

A new study tested 16 children’s mattresses and found widespread contamination with harmful semivolatile organic compounds ...

Most scary of all, when researchers simulated a child's body temperature and weight on the mattresses, emissions of toxic ...

Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have shown. But the study of ...

New research suggests children’s mattresses are off-gassing toxic chemicals that can cause serious health issues. A recent ...

Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a ...