Newborns prefer beautiful faces
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Newborn infants display an innate preference for looking at attractive faces rather than their opposite, researchers say.
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Adults thinking back rarely can remember anything before preshool, but those bright infant eyes staring back at mommy and daddy really are forming memories. It's just that babies also forget. In fact, babies' rate of forgetting is even faster than that of adults, Patricia J. Bauer of Duke University said Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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NEW YORK  - Infants with jaundice who are treated with intensive light therapy -- the current standard treatment -- have a significantly increased risk of developing moles called melanocytic nevi as they grow older, French researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - The proportion of babies born  weighing more than 4 kilograms (a little under 9 pounds) has  increased significantly over the past decade in Sweden, North  America, and Europe.
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NEW YORK  - Breast-fed children are significantly more likely to do well in measures of stereoscopic vision than are those who received formula during infancy, according to UK researchers.
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Scientists have identified the gene that controls a baby's first breath.
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Unborn children may be at risk from the shampoos and hand lotions used by their pregnant mothers, it was claimed yesterday. A chemical commonly used in these toiletries can affect the growth of structures
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A NASA observatory discovers dozens of 'baby' galaxies in our midst. Scientists say the newborns could tell us a lot about our own aging Milky Way. By Amit Asaravala.
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SAN DIEGO -- A new image of a familiar stellar nursery peeks inside the incubators to provide a colorful glimpse of unborn stars.
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Milagros Cerron smiles, babbles and fidgets in the arms of her mother like any healthy 9-month-old, but she is no ordinary baby. Milagros was born with her legs fused in a tight coating of skin &#151; giving her the appearance of a mermaid.
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Fat from the tummy or bottom could be used to grow new breasts.
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Even young children can paint a picture of their health and well-being, though it doesn't always match parents' perceptions, research shows.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000 children in Hong Kong has shown.
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BOSTON -- Newborns face little risk of birth defects from antidepressants taken by many women early in pregnancy, say the reassuring findings of the two biggest studies of this controversial link.
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Newborn babies prefer to look at attractive faces, says a UK researcher, suggesting that face recognition is hardwired at birth, rather than learned.
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Cooling the brains of newborns who have  been deprived of oxygen during birth could help cut the risk of  brain damage.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Noor Sabah, an Iraqi toddler, was born without a jawbone on the right side of her face, causing a horrible deformity that affects her hearing, eating, and language development.