California
Faced with a public outcry and increasing political pressure, state health officials on Friday reversed course and rescinded an order barring thousands of needy infants from a federally funded food nutrition program.
May 12, 1990
World & Nation
Progress in reducing the infant mortality rate in the United States has ground nearly to a halt, a national panel reported Wednesday.
March 1, 1990
Crime: Time and again, abandoned babies are found in dumpsters or at the sides of roads. The parents are often young, poor, scared and unaware of their options.
Feb. 9, 1997
Science & Medicine
WASHINGTON – Why do kids grow up to cry “Mommy” more often than “Daddy”?
May 7, 2013
Business
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since it’s a relationship that’s been known for years, but the states with the harshest restrictions on abortions also have the worst infant mortality rates.
May 15, 2019
In a study that is bound to fuel debate over the use of expensive technology to keep very tiny babies alive, a team of Ohio researchers has found that children who weighed less than 1 pound, 10 ounces at birth are far more likely than other youngsters to suffer long-term physical and mental disabilities.
Sept. 22, 1994
Women’s brains more likely than men’s to respond to crying babies
Health: Results of UCI study tracking Latino women suggests that the closeness could keep infants from falling so deeply asleep they stop breathing.
Jan. 9, 1997
More than 3,000 needy children--some at high risk of suffering health problems--are being taken off a federal nutrition program because the demand for services in Orange County far outstrips available resources.
Dec. 27, 1991
The nation would save money at the same time it saves its children by redirecting resources to health care for pregnant women and their newborn infants, a federal commission said today.
Aug. 4, 1988