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Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Infant mortality rates in the United States increased by 3% in 2022, according to a new federal report published early Thursday morning. Researchers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics looked at linked birth and death data sets — information from the […]
seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Infant mortality increased by 12.9% from 2021 to 2022 in Texas after Texas’ near-total ban on abortion was enacted, according to a new study published today in JAMA Pediatrics. A total of 2243 Texas infants, or children under 1 year, died in 2022 compared to 1985 […]
XiXinXing/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — A 6-month-old girl born with a life-threatening lung disorder is now breathing on her own thanks to a rare double lung transplant. Kylie Overfield was placed on a ventilator immediately after her birth on Nov. 10, 2023, due to surfactant B deficiency, a rare genetic condition that causes abnormalities in the […]
FDA (NEW YORK) — Over 675,000 cans of baby formula are being recalled for possible bacterial contamination, the company announced. Reckitt and Mead Johnson Nutrition, the makers of Enfamil and Nutramigen, announced Saturday it was voluntarily recalling cans of Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder, a specialty formula given to infants with cow’s milk allergy, following […]
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Infant mortality rates in the United States increased last year for the first time in two decades, according to new federal provisional data. For the report, published early Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Vital Statistics, researchers looked at birth/infant death data collected […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (HOLYOKE, Mass.) — A shooting at a Massachusetts intersection on Wednesday critically injured a pregnant bystander on a bus, whose infant subsequently died, officials said. The shooting was reported shortly before 1 p.m. in Holyoke, just outside of Springfield, according to Holyoke police. Three male suspects were involved in an altercation that […]
Courtesy Reanna Bendzak (NEW YORK) — A mom in Canada is sharing a warning about eating and drinking outdoors as summer approaches. Reanna Bendzak said she, her husband and their two children were at an outdoor barbecue in March when she gave her then-7-month-old daughter a piece of celery to chew on. “Our daughter was […]
kali9/Getty Images (FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) — An infant has been shot and two adults have been pronounced dead following a shooting inside a North Carolina home, police said. The incident occurred at approximately 8:28 p.m. on Tuesday when officers from the Fayetteville Police Department responded to reports of a shooting on the 1100 block of Bunce […]
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