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A farmer?s wife breastfeeds her baby while two other women give water to a child from a pitcher. From The Five Senses Series by Fredrick Bloemaert, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1632-1670. CREDIT: F. Bloemaert/A. Bloemaert/N. Visscherimage/Rijks Museum/Public Domain

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Women in a 19th-century Dutch farming village didn't breastfeed

An analysis of bones from about 500 individuals who died between 1830 and 1867 in Middenbeemster suggests women in the dairy farming community did not breastfeed

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A child receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Paris in December 2021

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Myocarditis and covid-19 vaccines: How rare is it and who is at risk?

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DNA sequencing peaks show on computer mornitor

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How Australia has cut child cancer deaths – and hopes to get to zero

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Giving low-income US families $4000 a year boosts child brain activity

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Dad entertaining toddler

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Babies can tell who's closely related from whether they share saliva

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Sofia Wright demonstrates the CamAPS FX application.

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Artificial pancreas is 'life-changing' for children with diabetes

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NEW DELHI, INDIA - NOVEMBER 4: A view of Vikas Marg ITO traffic junction on the first day of the Odd-Even traffic regulation scheme on November 4, 2019 in New Delhi, India. The third edition of the odd-even road space rationing drive saw fewer prosecutions on Monday compared to the first day of the previous arrangement in April, 2016. The Odd-Even scheme will be in force until November 15. It entails private vehicles with registration numbers ending with odd digits to be allowed on odd dates and those with even digits on even dates.(Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)

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One in 12 new cases of asthma in children linked to NO2 air pollution

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Illustration of the hippocampus in a child's brain.

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Higher US welfare benefits seem to protect children's brains

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At the newly opened Toddler Lab at Birkbeck, University of London, a new technique for imaging the brain using infrared light means we are starting to understand how young children learn to plan complex goals. The lab utilises functional near-infrared spectroscopy or fNIRS and motion capture gloves to measure how children learn to plan and achieve goals. Pictured: Finn

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A new kind of brain scan is letting us understand how toddlers think

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Cells of the thymus, a lymphoid organ

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Children born without key immune cells saved with engineered organ

Children who would normally have died because they lack an important immune organ can now survive thanks to a special thigh implant that produces immune cells

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How will the UK’s Universal Credit cut affect the health of children?

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Children with more books at home have less mental decline when older

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Basic income trial is testing how money affects child development

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Repeated coronavirus lockdowns are taking a severe toll on children

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