A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

At first glance, mom Shelby Rupp thought it looked exactly like a bug bite, and nothing about it initially felt alarming.

Hydrocephalus is a life-threatening condition that occurs in about 1 in 1,000 newborns and is often treated with invasive surgery. Now, a new study offers hope of preventing hydrocephalus before it ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as well as treatment guidelines.

In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus. By ...

Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease involving an overproduction of the protein collagen. Linear scleroderma usually begins as a streak of hardened, waxy, discolored skin on the forehead, an arm, ...

The baby girl was left at a busy Midtown subway station on Monday morning. The woman charged with abandoning her newborn at a Midtown Manhattan subway station told investigators she gave birth just ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- An investigation is underway after a baby was found at the Penn Station subway station in Manhattan on Monday morning. An anonymous tip led police to the child at the ...

Her arm was the first thing Shyam Babu saw, tiny and frail, poking through the mud like a discarded doll. But this was no doll. Covered with ants and bleeding from what doctors would later suspect ...

Arizona is expanding its newborn health screening program, even as the federal process for adding new disorders has stalled. The state plans to screen for 39 different rare disorders by 2027, up from ...