https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child's mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy, health officials said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-newborn-death-linked-mom-raw.html Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:18:21 EST news689487447 It's been almost five years since the end of the COVID lockdowns. Yet the world is still continuing to learn about how mental health changed during—and after—this unprecedented time. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-mental-health-baby-boomers-gen.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:40:05 EST news689258008 Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously thought—according to new research from neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin. The research, which combined brain imaging with artificial intelligence models, enriches our understanding of what babies are thinking and how they learn in the earliest months of life. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-newborn-mind-babies-categorize-brain.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:06 EST news689244902 Gerber has announced a nationwide recall of some arrowroot biscuits made for babies after finding they may contain small pieces of soft plastic or paper, federal regulators said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-gerber-recalls-arrowroot-baby-biscuits.html Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:27:50 EST news688994851 Cardiff Babylab at the Cardiff University Center for Human Developmental Science (CUCHDS) used baby-worn headcams and AI face detection to investigate the everyday viewing of faces during playtime across the first years of development. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-baby-headcams-reveal-babies-encounter.html Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:41:31 EST news688736462 Northwestern University researchers have developed the first device that can continuously track a fetus's vital signs while still in the uterus—a feat that previously had not been possible. The soft, flexible, robotic probe could dramatically improve safety during fetal surgeries, procedures in which physicians operate on a fetus before birth. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-kind-probe-fetal-health-utero.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:11:45 EST news688641062 An artificial intelligence-based tool can predict the medical trajectories of individual premature newborns from blood samples collected soon after they are born, a Stanford Medicine-led study has shown. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-ai-preemies-paths-based-blood.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:00:11 EST news688216561 Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the Sunshine Coast has found. The study is published in the journal Developmental Science. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-baby-aid-infants-early-language.html Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:18:35 EST news687691081 As immigrants in southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi braced for this month's U.S. Homeland Security operation, Cristiane Rosales-Fajardo received a panicked phone call from a friend. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-baby-raids-immigrants.html Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:40:01 EST news685791496 When babies struggle with poor sleep, parents often suffer right alongside them. Growing evidence shows that a baby's gut health plays a key role in comfort, digestion and overall sleep quality. Supporting a healthy gut microbiome may help babies sleep better, which can bring much-needed relief to exhausted parents. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-healthy-gut-baby.html Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:36:52 EST news685276562 Some of the nation's biggest retailers are receiving stern warning letters after regulators found recalled baby formula still being sold weeks after it was pulled for safety concerns. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-fda-slams-retailers-recalled-infant.html Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:50:01 EST news685199120 A new study from the University of Oklahoma suggests that small genetic differences in two proteins—previously known for their role in premature infants' lungs—may also influence how their eyes develop, potentially affecting the risk of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-links-genetic-variants-eye-disease.html Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:06:28 EST news684997561 Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-san-francisco-woman-birth-waymo.html Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:39:31 EST news684650304 In a little over ten years, organoid models—miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs—have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug discovery. As a bonus, they've reduced our reliance on animal testing. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-mini-brains-big-science-ethics.html Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:30:08 EST news684599095 On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-hepatitis-shots-newborns-birth-doses.html Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:50:09 EST news684405732 Friendship can be one of the keys to staying healthier later in life—that was one of the key findings from new research at the University of New Hampshire that took a closer look into the growing public health concern of loneliness. The study found that older adults without children are more vulnerable to loneliness, but good friends helped fill that void. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-friendship-important-lifeline-older-adults.html Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:19:39 EST news684076741 For cases of mild congenital heart defects (CHDs), more prenatal visits are associated with lower probability of delivery at a cardiac center, according to a study published online Nov. 9 in JAMA Network Open to coincide with the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2025, held from Nov. 7 to 10 in New Orleans. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-aha-impact-adequate-prenatal-congenital.html Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:20:01 EST news682348277 As several European countries are currently detecting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, ECDC issues rapid scientific advice for policymakers and public health authorities on ways to mitigate the impact of RSV disease among infants through immunization and to support intensified efforts to protect them from RSV across the region. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-infants-respiratory-syncytial-virus-winter.html Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:40:01 EST news682263508 In a commentary published in Gastroenterology, leading experts urge that all newborns in the United States continue to receive the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-qa-experts-urge-hepatitis-vaccine.html Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:56:04 EST news682268161 "Postpartum depression" has been discussed as an identifiable, measurable, treatable disorder for 50 years now. Thresholds, scales, prevalence rates: everything seems clear, even reassuring. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-partum-depression-relationship-woes-importance.html Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:19:04 EST news682258742 A treatment that could protect premature babies from brain damage showed promise in a recent study in Sweden. Using a first-of-its-kind prenatal brain model created with human cells, researchers observed new details about the effects of cerebral hemorrhages on stem cells during preterm birth. They also successfully tested an antidote that reduced the damage. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-brain-premature-babies-lab-grown.html Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:32:03 EST news682014721 In a new JNeurosci paper, Sarah Jessen and colleagues, from the University of Lübeck, explored how infants track their mothers' voices compared to unfamiliar voices. The researchers also explored whether this vocal processing affects how babies process new faces. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-exploring-maternal-bond-affects-social.html Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:09 EST news681985501 In cases of mild congenital heart defects, more prenatal visits are associated with a greater likelihood of appropriate delivery at a community hospital, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Results suggest that more prenatal care is beneficial for families and may allow their newborns with mild heart defects to receive the right level of care closer to home, as opposed to traveling to a regional cardiac surgical center, which can be expensive, taxing and stressful for families. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-prenatal-linked-infants-born-heart.html Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:00:01 EST news681728310 Federal and state health officials are investigating 13 cases in 10 states of infant botulism linked to baby formula that was being recalled, authorities said Saturday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-infant-botulism-states-linked-formula.html Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:29:08 EST news681884943 You may think your home is safe once the outlet covers are in, the baby gates are locked and the sharp corners are padded, but some of the biggest dangers to babies and toddlers aren't the ones parents can see. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-household-items-babies-toddlers.html Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:40:01 EST news681737491 For most people, eating a wide variety of fruit and vegetables is the cornerstone of a healthy diet. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-intolerant-fruit-veg.html Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:30:02 EST news681557345 About half to three-quarters of expectant mothers experience pain during pregnancy that is largely untreated, contributing to preventable suffering and harm. Many mothers avoid medications and treatments during pregnancy for fear that they may cause harm to their unborn baby. Yet, most are unaware of the harms that untreated pain in pregnancy may cause. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-pain-pregnancy-dismissed-discomfort-nurse.html Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:27:04 EST news681391621 If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you, like me, are a millennial. If so, you've probably noticed more and more cases of friends or acquaintances with diseases that you would normally associate with later adulthood—hypertension, type 2 diabetes or perhaps even the one that we're all scared to name: cancer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-millennials-cancer.html Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:04:05 EDT news680954641 Many clinical trials exclude women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or able to become pregnant. This is often done to protect the health of unborn babies and infants, but it means there is little reliable information about how medicines and treatments affect these women and their babies, according to a Viewpoint published in The Lancet. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-pregnant-breastfeeding-women-medical.html Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:39:02 EDT news680513941 Physiotherapy isn't just for adults recovering from injuries. Physiotherapists can help babies and children, too—including babies with, or at high risk of, cerebral palsy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-physio-months-earlier-babies-cerebral.html Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:20:01 EDT news680263914