Paid family leave programs not only reduce infant maltreatment, they may have also have a fiscal benefit: reducing the need for spending on child protective services, according to new Georgia Tech ...

Infant mortality up 5.6% in states with abortion bans, restrictions Report estimates an extra 478 infant deaths that would otherwise not have occurred Mortality increase greater for babies with ...

To save the lives of infants and small children living in low- and middle-income countries, there are a handful of tried and tested tools, like anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. The results ...

Recent neuroscience research shows that our brain’s organization of the visual world occurs much earlier than previously thought by scientists. As early as 2 months of age, babies exhibit clear ...

A study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal has identified that the vast majority of neonatal (newborn infant ...

A decades-long campaign to prevent infants from dying in their sleep has become a casualty of the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts, and doctors fear it could contribute to more infant ...

Surveillance captured 16,775 RSV-associated hospitalizations/ED visits; median age was 10 months, with 41% of hospitalizations in infants ≤7 months and most encounters managed in the ED.

After a recent incident of infant abandonment captured public attention in Austin, advocates say more awareness of Texas' Safe Haven law is needed. At a news conference last week, Detective Russell ...