FIVEyearolds

British five-year-olds are on average seven centimetres shorter than Dutch children, with a poor diet being blamed for kids falling behind in height rankings.On average, five-year-olds in Britain are up to 2.7 inches shorter than in…

One in 25 American children won't live to their 40th birthday, according to a shocking analysis that lays bare the US's abysmal life expectancy record.An analysis found that guns, drugs and other preventable deaths are killing the US' youth…

Who do children prefer to learn from? Previous research has shown that even infants can identify the best informant. But would preschoolers prefer learning from a competent robot over an incompetent human? According to a new paper by…

Britain's Covid vaccine rollout should be extended to primary school children to defend against the incoming Omicron wave, a senior SAGE scientist said today.Professor John Edmunds, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and…

Arguments to vaccinate children as young as five against Covid are 'scientifically weak', British experts claimed today after the US moved closer to jabbing infants. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday…