When babies are born too early, have a low birth weight, or have complicated medical conditions at birth, they may need to be cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by specially trained ...

When a child falls ill, caregivers often change how and where the infant sleeps—wanting to keep them close through the night.

Adding genomic sequencing to the standard newborn screening heel-prick test is changing how we diagnose kids with genetic ...

Babies born to mothers who live in rural areas or who don't receive prenatal care may face higher risks of health ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much ...

Health officials in Mississippi have declared a public emergency over the state’s rising infant mortality rate, which is the highest it’s been in a decade. Data from 2024 show that for every 1,000 ...

Low levels of neonatal health services utilization and high neonatal deaths are often concentrated among socially and economically disadvantaged groups, especially in low-income countries. Therefore ...