Spotting Concussions in Babies and Toddlers
Kids and adults can talk about their symptoms, but the littlest ones can’t. Here’s how to spot brain injury.
Category: Babies
Ask the Pediatrician: Baby Vaccines
Pediatrician Edward Pickens, MD, talks about why baby vaccines are a must.
What to Do When the Woman You Love Has Postpartum Depression
Your partner's postpartum depression is more than baby blues. Get information on PPD symptoms and learn what you can do (and what not to do) to help her.
Babies, Depression, Families, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Women
Toddler Brain Development: bacterial clues found in dirty baby diapers
Can the kinds of microbes colonizing the gut at age 1 predict later cognitive development? Findings from the UNC School of Medicine shed light on the surprising role of bacteria in how our brains develop during the first years of life.
Babies, Children, Mental Health, Microbiome, News, Nutrition
Pregnant women should be included in Zika virus vaccine research, n...
The inclusion of pregnant women in Zika virus vaccine research is crucial to solving the international health crisis, according to new guidance published by UNC’s Center for Bioethics and two other universities.
Babies, Children, Contagions, Fertility, Pregnancy, Research, Vaccines, Zika
Collaboration offers genetic testing for NC newborns
A new NIH-funded consortium in North Carolina will offer Early Check, a free newborn screening done in partnership with the N.C. State Laboratory of Public Health, UNC, Duke University, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Are you ready to explore baby’s genome?
UNC clinical geneticists are part of a national consortium of researchers studying the ins and outs of genome sequencing for newborn health screenings and beyond.
The science of baby’s first sight
UNC scientists conduct seminal experiments to unveil how early-in-life visual experiences – simply trying to see – sculpt a particular subnetwork of brain circuitry we need in order to see properly.
