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To prevent injuries in babies, car seats should stay in the car.

Despite efforts to rid Central Park of dangerous tree limbs, the death of the baby girl killed by a falling branch Saturday is the third such accident since last year.

A California couple faces child endangerment charges after police say they tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store.

More than 2 million cribs from Evenflo, Delta Enterprise Corp. and five other companies were recalled Thursday amid concerns that babies can suffocate, become trapped or fall from the cribs...

A standoff in Sacramento, California, entered its 52nd hour Friday with no end in sight as police wait out a man wanted on multiple charges who is holding a 16-month-old baby as a hostage.

A video snippet from a Philadelphia Phillies broadcast appears to show a little boy in the stands taking a drink from a beer bottle, but the team thinks it was probably empty.

The baby crib, usually a safe haven for little ones, became a death trap for 6-month-old Bobby Cirigliano. The side rail on his drop-side crib slid off the tracks and trapped his head and neck between the mattress and the malfunctioning side rail. His face pressed against the mattress, the boy suffocated....

Call it the “Twilight” effect: Names from Stephanie Meyer’s vampire novels and their hit film spin-offs sank their teeth into the list of most popular baby names of 2009, with Jacob and Isabella (the long form of Bella) topping the respective lists for boys and girls, and Cullen rising faster than any other boy’s name.

It was thought that fetal immune cells were too immature to be useful and that fetuses and newborns relied on antibodies provided by their mothers. Now David Vermijlen at the Institute for Medical Immunology in Brussels, Belgium, and his colleagues have shown that fetuses just 21 weeks old may be capable of fending off infections using ...

Pregnant women could -- and probably should -- consume 10 times more vitamin D than experts currently recommend, according to a new study.