If your baby has had three or more ear infections in six months, or four or more in a year, doctors call it recurrent acute otitis media: infection and inflammation of the middle ear (the space behind ...

Yeast infections are common in babies, especially during their first six months. In adults, yeast infections primarily affect people with vaginas, but in babies, they can occur no matter the sex. Here ...

A multi-center study led by researchers at Cincinnati Children's sheds new light on why some newborns become severely ill from Escherichia coli infection, but others do not. It turns out that most ...

A baby's makeup of gut bacteria—their microbiome—which starts to form as soon as they are born, could help protect against viral infections later in childhood, a new study suggests. As part of the ...

Parents of newborns and toddlers deal with a constant barrage of virus and infections in their children's early years, and an ear infection, although relatively common, can add to a parent's anxiety ...

A premature baby has died in the neonatal intensive care unit at St Louise's Women's and Children's Hospital in the German ...

The drugs aren't working as well as they used to. That's the sobering takeaway from new research published in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia last week: The most commonly prescribed ...

A woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy increases the chances of her newborn acquiring an infection soon after birth. Despite the well-publicised risk of drinking during pregnancy, there continues ...

A baby's makeup of gut bacteria — their microbiome — which starts to form as soon as they are born, could help protect against viral infections later in childhood, a new study suggests. As part of the ...