Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still ...

Affection in infants was long thought to be generated by the satisfactions of feeding. Studies of young rhesus monkeys now indicate that love derives mainly from close bodily contact By Harry F ...

Although typically completed in the delivery room, it may be useful to re-evaluate the infant after the initial bath, when vernix and blood have been removed. Table 1 provides the common ...

it is suspected that that child has been exposed in utero to one of several organisms that can cause mild or subclinical disease in the mother but devastating damage to the infant. Over the recent ...