Black children conceived through in vitro or other fertility methods may be at risk of developing fatal health complications, a new study from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention found. The ...

A new study conducted in Australia may have identified why babies die from the heartbreaking and mysterious condition of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. Researchers are calling the small ...

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ...

Public health officials in Mississippi recently declared a crisis around infant mortality. Too many babies are dying. Officials are working to help pregnant moms get access to better prenatal care.

Federal safety officials are finally taking an important action against a baby product that have made headlines earlier this year. Inclined sleepers have been under fire by pediatricians and safety ...

Skeletal babies. Starving families shot down while waiting in line for food. Images and video of the famine in Gaza are now everywhere, and they've done in a few weeks what 21 months of war could not: ...

This article was published in partnership with Bloomberg Law. When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby.

(NewsNation) — So far this year, at least three infant deaths associated with congenital syphilis have been reported in New York state, as the number of reported cases continues to increase nationwide ...

A new state law taking effect this month will require many Texas hospitals offering maternity care to be equipped to handle stillbirths and infant loss. That will mean offering bereavement counseling ...

The state of Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency on an issue that is tragic for many families - infant mortality. The state has some of the highest rates in the nation. NPR's Katia ...