Babies are more likely to have colic when their mothers smoked or used nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy, according to research just published in the journal Pediatrics. A significantly increased risk of infantile colic—ranging from 30 to 60 percent—was associated with prenatal nicotine exposure in the study of more than 63,000 mothers in the Danish… Read more »
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More Treatments, Better Outcomes for Kids Born with Heart Disease
The single most common form of birth defect, congenital heart disease affects nearly one out of every 100 babies born in the United States. Yet our ability to detect and characterize congenital (present at birth) heart disease has improved remarkably over the last 50 years. Now, doctors can get precise information about the nature and… Read more »