Picture this: In the same pediatrician’s office, two little boys happen to have their 3-year-old well visit on the same day. Both start with a nurse, who weighs them and measures their height. Then ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

The growth charts are a series of curves that illustrate the distribution of body measurements by sex and age. If a 3-month-old girl, for example, is in the 40th percentile for weight and the 80th for ...