Pollution Damages Infants Brain - Unicef says

Over sixteen million babies below age one are breathing toxic air which endangers their brain development at risk, UN children's agency warns.

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Foods to Avoid Feeding a Baby

1. Honey: You would think honey would be perfectly safe to feed a baby, but it’s not, at least until the child is a year old. Why?
   

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Doctors Find Teeth In Baby's Brain Tumor

When a 4-month-old boy's head began to grow abnormally large, doctors were right to assume that something was seriously wrong.

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Testicle Size Linked to Nurturing

Men with smaller testicles are more likely than their well-endowed brethren to be involved in the care of their toddlers, anthropologists at Emory University report.

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Spinal Muscular Atrophy Is The Number One Killer Of Babies

Spinal muscular atrophy or SMA is what some experts call “the most common disease nobody’s ever heard of.” It’s the number one genetic killer of babies, affecting one in every 6,000.

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Baby Formula May Increase Risk Of Adult Obesity, Diseases, Study Says

Formula-fed babies may grow too quickly and may be more susceptible than breastfed babies to obesity and other chronic diseases later in life, a new study says.

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Almost Half of Babies Have Flat Spot On Head, But Prevention is Simple: Study

Almost half of Canadian infants develop flat areas on the back of their heads by the age of two months, likely the result of sleeping face-up to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, a study suggests.

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Mother of Triplets Died Eight Days After Their Birth

After giving birth to triplets, an apparently healthy Isabel Mason joked with hospital staff about having to buy a bigger car to fit them all in.

Minutes later the 34-year-old mother had died of an undetected heart condition.

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Effects, Causes, Signs and Symptoms of Premature Birth

Premature birth is defined either as the same as preterm birth, or the birth of a baby before the developing organs are mature enough to allow normal postnatal survival.

Premature infants are at greater risk for short and long term complications, including disabilities and impediments in growth and mental development.

Significant progress has been made in the care of premature infants, but not in reducing the prevalence of preterm birth.

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