Reading to a toddler-aged child does more than just get them to sit still for a few minutes. Led by James Law, Professor of Speech and Language Sciences in Newcastle University’s School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, researchers found something interesting. According to a new study, when parents and other caregivers routinely read with small children, the result is a language advantage of eight months. The researchers carefully reviewed sixteen reading int

Do you have a food allergy? If you’re an adult in the U.S., there’s about a 10 percent chance that you do—and, according to a new study, a 19% chance that you think you do. This piece of research was led by Dr. Ruchi Gupta, from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University. In a survey of 40,000 adults, chosen to form a representative sample of America, roughly one in ten reported experiencing allergic symptoms brought on by a food. The mos