LOS ANGELES -- When Eleisa Groomes discovered she was pregnant at 18, she just couldn't accept the new responsibility. She avoided her parents, hung out with friends who smoked and drank and, as she ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Saving babies lives by teaching parents about ways to keep infants safe when they sleep. It's a program being run by the Philadelphia Health Department. October is Sudden Infant ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated its infant formula compliance program for investigators, laboratory analysts and compliance officers. The compliance program is designed to ...

San Diego (KGTV) — While school districts and the San Diego County Office of Education work to support families of students with special needs, some medical conditions and developmental delays are ...

An experimental program soon will give 250 pregnant women in Philadelphia monthly payments of $1,000 – with no strings attached – in hopes of improving the city's infant mortality rate, which is the ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — In San Diego County, African American infants are nearly three times more likely to die in their first year than other infants. "Infant mortality is actually an important predictor ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Public health professionals are now getting ready for an influx in families who put off or struggled to access early intervention for their children who may be experiencing ...

In a residential pool in Coral Gables, we found a group of babies, as young as 6 months old, learning to turn around, float and lift their heads out of the water to breathe in case they fall into a ...

BARRE TOWN, Vermont (WPTZ) — A Barre Town program designed to care for and nurture infants is under fire after numerous violations show a staff member screaming and cursing at babies and at one point, ...

Martha Welch, MD, spent the better part of three decades in private practice treating children with emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders before accepting a job on the faculty of Columbia ...

Recent studies from across the country have helped solidify the link between housing instability—for example, substandard conditions, homelessness or needing to move regularly—and poor infant health.