Experts say early screening and vaccination can prevent miscarriage, birth defects and lifelong disability. Here's why ...

Certain infections like HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis, CMV, Zika and toxoplasmosis can pass from mother to baby during pregnancy ...

The procedure was performed on a 39-year-old woman with a life-threatening infection caused by gallstone blockage ...

Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new ...

Dr. Mireault is a developmental psychologist at Vermont State University. My son was 14 weeks old when he made his first unmistakable whole-body belly laugh. In the months that followed, his laughter ...

New brain imaging research reveals that by 10 months old, infants are already beginning to understand verbs, before they even say their first words. In the first study to directly test infants' ...

PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - France has lowered the safety limit for cereulide toxin in infant formula, aiming to strengthen protections after several major groups ordered worldwide recalls over ...

There are plans for the FDA to next year begin testing some of the dairy ingredients in infant formula for botulism-causing spores, according to an agency official. The move comes in the wake of an ...

PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Nestle (NESN.S), opens new tab widened an infant formula recall on Wednesday to include batches of Guigoz in France and SMA in the UK after the European Union introduced new ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously thought—according to new research from neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin.