Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. approved two new screenings for newborns, adding Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Metachromatic leukodystrophy, or DMD and MLD, respectively, to the list of recommended screenings.
Police are searching for a woman seen on surveillance footage leaving a newborn baby girl at the base of a stairwell in Manhattan’s busy Penn Station subway during Monday’s morning rush hour.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they have launched a review of nutrients in infant formula.
A recent "Saturday Night Live" sketch featuring actor Jon Hamm and cast member Bowen Yang as gay adoptive dads has stirred controversy—this time not from conservatives, but from the show’s usual liberal base.
A widely cited study suggesting black newborns are more likely to survive when treated by black doctors is now under scrutiny after evidence emerged that a key data point was deliberately omitted. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2020, has been used to justify affirmative action policies and the push for racial diversity in medical training.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) recently introduced a bill that affirms the "right to life" under the 14th Amendment to unborn children. The bill, called the "Life At Conception Act," implements equal protection to those in the womb.
