An Arkansas man is being charged with capital murder 15 years after he shook a 5-week-old baby, according to an affidavit of ...

Aside from Alaska's harsh climate, the state also has to contend with a rising number of birth defects. A 2021 report from ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the ...

Babies lacking in key gut bacteria are at greater risk of developing asthma, allergies or eczema Dirty diapers are more than ...

Harlequin ichthyosis affects just a handful of newborns each year in the US, but the condition is unmistakable, marked by a thick, armor-like layer of hard scales at birth. Once considered a death ...

A baby born at just 22 weeks gestation and weighing just over 1 pound has gone home after months in Sunrise Children's Hospital's NICU in Las Vegas, marking a remarkable medical success story.

Too little Bifidobacterium, used to digest breast milk, in babies' gut microbiomes can increase their risk of developing allergies and asthma.

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...