Kecia Carroll

  • Group portrait of diverse elementary school kids in school corridor

    Childhood health influences focus of new NIH initiative

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced it will provide $157 million in awards to launch a multi-center, seven-year initiative that will investigate how exposure to environmental factors in early development — from conception through early childhood — influences the health of children and adolescents. Read More

    Sep 29, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Prenatal folic acid and asthma

    The timing of folic acid-containing prescription filling during pregnancy was associated with childhood asthma, according to a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

    Oct 30, 2015