For decades, hospitals have given babies a vitamin K injection to protect against bleeding. Now, the shot appears to be ...

Their efforts may be in vein. Medical experts have been strongly advising new parents to make sure their newborns receive a ...

When a baby is born in a medical facility in the U.S., chances are high that they will be offered a range of treatments and tests that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which ...

When St. Louis resident Bridget had to take unpaid maternity leave from her job at a youth advocate program helping at-risk children, she turned to Nurses for Newborns (NFN) for help. “Marche has come ...

A University at Buffalo–led study found that parents whose newborns are transferred to another hospital for intensive care experience both positive and negative emotions when relying on technology to ...

(The Hill) – More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that from January 2017 ...

Congenital CMV is the most common nongenetic cause of hearing loss in children and a leading cause of other neurologic ...

The Future Champions partnership, led by Scott Credit Union, celebrates local newborns during the Winter Olympics.

Over a span of about 30 years, hepatitis B cases among children fell from about 18,000 per year to about 2,200, according to the Associated Press. Vaccinating newborns has reduced pediatric hepatitis ...