Using population-specific growth curves for Inuit children could promote the appropriate diagnosis of microcephaly and avoid overdiagnosis, according to a new study. Inuit children from Nunavut, ...

They look for steady and proportional growth in height, weight and head circumference, an indicator of brain development. As long as a child continues to gain weight and height proportionally over the ...

A study of infants during their first year of life conducted in Israel found that children with consistently small or large head circumferences had around three times higher odds of being diagnosed ...