Lancet study proves that NHS refusing to screen for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) as part of the newborn heel prick test is ...

The first few days and weeks with your new baby may feel like a whirlwind. You may still be recovering from childbirth. You may have a mix of emotions that lasts throughout the newborn phase. The ...

Learning that your newborn has a heart murmur can be scary news. But heart murmurs in newborns are actually extremely common and often harmless. Read on to learn more about what to look out for if ...

Being a new parent can be scary, and it can be even scarier when you have a newborn with hypoglycemia. However, newborn hypoglycemia, also called neonatal hypoglycemia, is very common. The American ...

Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have any of a range of rare conditions that could severely impact their health ...

A newborn’s belly button may bleed while the cord is falling off or shortly after it does. The umbilical cord supplies a fetus with nutrients from the mother. Once the baby is born, it no longer needs ...

Emese Nagy received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), The British Academy, Nuffield Foundation, the Royal Society, Carnegie Trust Scotland, Cross Trust. Very few people can ...

An infant was safely surrendered at a Safe Haven Baby Box in Atoka, Tennessee, marking the first use of the service.

A newborn was surrendered recently to Florida's only baby box, a device that lets people give up an unwanted infant anonymously. It was the first time anyone has used the baby box since organizers ...