Nurse visits after a new baby cut child abuse

Family Connects, a nurse visiting program, substantially reduces the rate of early child abuse investigations, researchers report.

Duke University • futurity
Nov. 12, 2019 ~3 min

Proton pump inhibitors for babies up infection risk

New research on proton pump inhibitors for babies finds that "being exposed to these drug levels actually puts the child at risk for having an extra infection event."

Vanderbilt U. • futurity
Nov. 7, 2019 ~4 min


Gut bacteria strain cuts inflammation in babies

Giving babies one strain of gut bacteria could reduce intestinal inflammation by 55 fold compared to giving babies breastmilk alone.

Nadine Yehya - UC Davis • futurity
Nov. 5, 2019 ~3 min

Babies get counting words way before we thought

Babies may understand counting words far before they can actually count themselves.

Jill Rosen-Johns Hopkins • futurity
Oct. 24, 2019 ~3 min

BreathJunior monitors sleeping babies with white noise

BreathJunior uses a smart speaker to play white noise that reflects off a sleeping baby to monitor movement, breathing, and crying.

Sarah McQuate-Washington • futurity
Oct. 18, 2019 ~7 min

Deaf babies with Deaf parents have serious gaze skills

"Informal observations of Deaf infants interacting with their Deaf parents have suggested that these infants possess keen control over their eye-gaze behavior."

Kim Eckart-Washington • futurity
Oct. 16, 2019 ~5 min

Inhaled drug for preemies cuts pneumonia risk in mice

A drug to protect the lungs of premature babies from pneumonia fell flat before. New research with mice suggests it just needs to go up the nose.

Tamara Bhandari-Washington University • futurity
Oct. 16, 2019 ~1 min

Some cases of SIDS may have this genetic cause

New research links a genetic anomaly and some forms of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, which claims the lives of more than 3,000 infants a year.

Leila Gray-UW • futurity
Oct. 14, 2019 ~5 min


Infants with high fever have double the risk of infection

Infants younger than eight weeks who have a high fever are at a higher risk of bacterial infection, research finds.

Barbara Schindo-Penn State • futurity
Oct. 7, 2019 ~4 min

Donor breastmilk doesn’t contain enough zinc

Donor breastmilk doesn't have enough zinc, tests show. Although donor milk gets fortified for babies in the NICU, parents are buying it for use at home.

Jessica O'Leary-U. Rochester • futurity
Sept. 24, 2019 ~3 min

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