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To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

There's a fresh push to edit the genes of human embryos to prevent diseases and enhance characteristics that parents value. Bioethicists say just because it's possible doesn't mean it should be done.

Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?

What's the right age to take kids to a loud sporting event? A Johns Hopkins noise expert on protecting babies' ears and when game day noise might be too much for them.

Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The findings suggest these memories may still exist, but are inaccessible to us.

New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Texas had the highest number of infant deaths in the country last year.

Researchers who study the importance of a baby's early experiences are also looking into how built and natural environments are critical to health outcomes.

Researchers are inching closer to creating human eggs and sperm in the lab that carry a full complement of anyone's DNA. It could revolutionize fertility treatment and raises huge ethical questions.

A bill that would expand Texas’ decades-old Baby Moses law by adding new ways to surrender infants currently awaits the governor’s signature. Senate Bill 780 broadens the definition of 'designated emergency infant care provider' and allows safe havens to install newborn safety devices.

Researchers are learning more about how these early influences can impact a child's immune, metabolic, and cardiovascular systems as they get older.