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Babies born during the early stages of the pandemic missed the opportunity of meeting a normal social circle of people outside the family home. Methods We compared 10 parentally reported developmental ...

The main developmental finding is that the pandemic-born babies showed deficits in communication not seen in a comparable prepandemic birth cohort. There were some differences in gross motor ...

The second month of the year is here, and while we know that babies born in January are more likely to be famous and become doctors, we couldn't help but wonder - what about February babies? Let's ...

A Louisiana aquarium has a new star — and a mystery — on its hands after a baby shark was born in a habitat without any males. The Shreveport Aquarium announced last week that Yoko the swell ...

The number of babies born infected with syphilis increased in Colorado last year, but not by as much as state officials feared when they sounded the alarm in April. The 2024 statistics aren’t ...

Up until 2016, babies in Nova Scotia born at 32 weeks gestation or less were eligible for palivizumab, a vaccine administered in four or five doses in an RSV season. But that year, the IWK ...

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Whatever you think about the Sundance Film Festival, there is a special kind of excitement when a movie from a first-time filmmaker premieres and you just know you are discovering and witnessing ...

54 percent of the world’s babies will be born in sub-Saharan Africa. Include North Africa, and the share is even higher. If that forecast is right (and always be skeptical of long-term ...

Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex set of experiments by a team in China. Zhi-Kun Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and ...