Touch helps babies and toddlers learn self-awareness. The discovery could lead to interventions for kids with motor development delays.

When parents were forced to switch infant formula brands during a nationwide shortage, the health of some babies suffered, a new study finds.

When a baby is stillborn, parents, friends, and family may think that talking about it will be too painful. But it can actually help healing.

Laws that allow undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses boost the overall health and well-being of immigrant moms and their babies.

Viagra may offer a way to treat newborn babies who run out of oxygen during pregnancy or at birth, a new study shows.

One year after a baby's partial heart transplant, two well-functioning valves and arteries are growing as if they were native vessels.

Infants have new protections against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), but availability is limited. Two experts discuss what you should know.

Giving antiretroviral therapy to babies with HIV in the first days of life can suppress amounts of the virus in the blood to undetectable levels.

"...the US has really focused on pushing breastfeeding as a goal, but we have done that without thinking through all of the relative costs..."

A baby's cry triggers the release of oxytocin, a brain chemical that controls breast milk release in mothers, a new study with mice shows.