A landmark clinical trial published in the Journal of Perinatology has resolved a long-standing dilemma facing Japan's ...

Objective To examine the relationship between postpartum physical activity and maternal postnatal cardiometabolic health, breastfeeding, injury, and infant growth and development. Design Systematic ...

In a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, researchers described the protocol of a prospective clinical study called NUTRISHIELD, being conducted in the Spanish-Mediterranean ...

Home visiting programs are effective in promoting healthy pregnancies, birth outcomes and infant growth and development—and new University of Michigan research offers ways to increase participation ...

Organophosphate esters, commonly used as substitutes for brominated flame retardants, are increasingly present in various environmental media due to their use in consumer products. Humans are exposed ...

A clinical trial conducted in a neonatal intensive care unit has identified a new treatment protocol to improve lung growth and function among preterm infants. Adding two weeks of continuous positive ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst nutrition scientist who has spent his career studying breast milk has demonstrated how beneficial microbes in the gut of infants use nitrogen from human milk to ...

By analyzing layers in these teeth, scientists have pinpointed a critical window when baby brains are most vulnerable to ...