Supporting emotional connection between a premature baby and mother during the intensive care unit treatment effectively improves the baby's brain development. The effects are clearly visible in the ...

Phthalates — the synthetic chemicals used in everyday products for food packaging, personal care, toys and more — have been linked to abnormal neurological development in infants. Now, scientists may ...

Infant sleep patterns and emotional regulation are important for healthy development, but it is challenging to get real-time insights into infant behavior. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

What do parents often miss when evaluating infant care programs? MORGANTOWN, WV, UNITED STATES, January 12, 2026 ...

Babies rapidly share gut microbes at nursery, with peer contact shaping the infant microbiome as strongly as family by the first year of life.

New findings from a Phase II study indicate that antenatal treatment with the FcRn blocker nipocalimab resulted in low fetal drug exposure and transient reductions in infant IgG levels at birth, ...