Even if educational content is available, showing smartphones or tablet PCs to infants under 2 years old can be highly risky, ...

You might have gear in your car-camping toolbox that could put the kids you travel with in danger. Read up on the risks, and ...

In the ongoing effort to find new therapeutics for infants born infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, an ...

Healthy, breastfed infants who receive iron supplementation show fewer aggressive behaviors at age 3 compared with children who did not receive supplementation, according to new research from Umeå ...

A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic ...

Acid reflux is a condition in which stomach contents and acid flow back up into the throat and esophagus. The esophagus is the tube that connects the throat and stomach. It’s a common problem in ...

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is an inherited disorder of red blood cells. Some parents may learn that their infant has this disorder after prenatal testing. Hospitals also test for SCA after birth as part ...

Covid hospitalizations among infants younger than six months surged elevenfold from April through July of this year, according to a CDC study. Fortunately, the spike in hospitalizations was not ...

“Kangaroo mother care,” a type of newborn care involving skin-to-skin contact with the mother or other caregiver, reduces mortality in infants with low birth weight (<2.0 kg) when initiated after ...

Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neuromuscular disease characterized by an onset at 6 months of age or younger, an inability to sit without support, and deficient levels of ...