Infant Health Stories
The FDA asked manufacturers to stop selling benzocaine teething products aimed at babies. Here are some safer and more efficient ways to ease the pain.
An experiment on zebrafish has suggested an important association between sleep arousals, body temperature, and sudden infant death syndrome.
Researchers say non-parental supervisors need to be educated on the safest sleep practices to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
An observational study investigated the subtle differences between infants who were fed soy milk, cow milk and breast milk.
Fathers may be more likely to spend time with their children when they see a resemblance to themselves, study finds.
A surrogate refused a baby’s parents’ wish for an abortion after finding out the unborn boy had a heart defect. Now she is calling on people to love them for their decision ultimately to "choose life."
When a baby is born with an extra finger, doctors tie it off so the digit dies and falls off. But now a team of doctors say that can be painful for the infant and they offer new advice.
Doctors in Canada perform historic in-utero heart surgery on unborn baby.
New research suggests that Zika may be transmitted from mother to fetus at at much higher rate than previously thought, and may cause eye problems.
Parents in Belgium are now in trial after their seven-month baby died from malnutrition following a strict lactose-free gluten free diet, with no medical recommendations.
An infographic displays more than 100 benefits of breastfeeding for a mother, her baby, and society.
Smoking weed throughout pregnancy can triple the odds of having an infant with low birth weight.