"Our findings point to an urgent need for health care professionals to provide prenatal counseling to parents," said Dr. Semidey.

Increasing numbers of parents are refusing vitamin K shots for their newborns, putting infants at greater risk of avoidable brain injuries, according to a preliminary systematic review released ...

A new review reveals a concerning rise in parents refusing vitamin K shots for newborns, increasing the risk of life-threatening brain bleeds by 81 times.

Under its former childhood vaccine schedule, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that kids get 12 different vaccines protecting against 16 diseases before age 10. It didn’t ...

Giving some newborns in Guinea-Bissau an established hepatitis B treatment but not others is "unethical", it says.

Norway, Denmark, and other countries with fewer childhood vaccines have another thing in common: paid parental leave.

It has been a brutal viral season, but as RSV cases surged in New York​, Northwell Health doctors say infant hospitalizations remained down, thanks to a fairly new vaccine.

African scientists have criticised a study of hepatitis B virus birth dose vaccination as being unethical. Gilbert Nakweya reports.

A US-funded study in Guinea-Bissau on the effects of neonatal hepatitis B virus vaccination has been suspended pending further review due to ethical concerns. Talha Burki reports.

The number of babies requiring intensive care due to an RS virus infection has dropped sharply this fall and winter, the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) reports. Between late ...