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The human brain may be wired to sympathize with the underdog. Even if the underdog is a yellow square being chased by a blue circle, and the brain has been checking out the outside world for only 10 months. Read on.

A new study boosts the evidence that breastfeeding is good for babies' brains.

Researchers from Brown University used a specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look at the brain growth in a group of children under the age of 4. Read on.

Babies learn to babble before they learn to talk, at first simply repeating individual syllables (as in ba-ba-ba), and later stringing various syllables together (as in ba-da-goo). Songbirds exhibit similar patterns during song-learning, and the capacity for this sort of syllable sequencing is widely believed to be innate and to emerge full-blown - Read on.

So, the lives of 120 babies would be prevented each year if only heedless, careless parents listened to those decisive, knowledgeable, consistent medical experts and stopped taking their babies to bed with them? OK, so I've put in the angry, sarcastic adjectives, but it feels like that's the basic thrust of this week's news about cot death – sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS. Read on.

Babies sharing beds with their parents face a five-fold risk of dying of cot death, even if their parents are not smokers, new research shows.

The increased risk of death extends to babies previously thought to be at low risk because they are breastfed and the mother has not taken alcohol or drugs, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal Open. Read on.

ISLAMABAD: For babies, sitting up - either by themselves or with assistance - plays a significant role in how they learn, according to a new study.

Researchers from North Dakota State University and Texas A&M found that something as simple as the body position of babies while they learn plays a critical role in their cognitive development. Read on.

The first Chinese breast milk bank will be officially opening its doors at the Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center in June. The opening of the clinic comes amidst growing concerns over the safety of infant formula in China prompted by the deaths of several children due to poisoned formula. Read on.

In a bid to promote breastfeeding, hospitals push to reduce formula feeding in infants in the days following their birth. But in a new study, the first to carry out a randomized trial, researchers show that giving small amounts of formula to newborns who lose a lot of weight in their first few days of life, can actually help prolong breastfeeding in the long term. Read on

Babies are born with the ability to recognise familiar sounds and language patterns, according to new research. A glimpse into the fast-moving minds of infants.

Mastering a foreign language can be a frustrating experience and one that gets harder as we age. The younger you start, the easier it seems to be. Read on.

A new Swedish study suggests that parents who want to protect their infants from developing allergies should try a simple approach to introducing their children to the wide world of microbes: Just pop their pacifiers into their own mouths before giving them back to their babies. Read on.

Most new moms aim to breast-feed their babies - a practice encouraged by experts who tout the many health benefits of breast milk.

But breast milk is not perfect when it comes to vitamin D. A new study published Tuesday in a special edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association focusing on child health reiterates that breast-fed babies also need a vitamin D supplement. Read on.

Finding the point at which babies' reactions change from being purely reflexive to reflecting more intention is leading researches to focus on the first glimmers of conscious thought in infants as young as five months old. Read on.

Parents attempting to let their babies go "diaper-free" know better than to aim for complete success because bladder control can be tough -- but they do aim for potties. Read on.

Babies become conscious of their environment by the time they are five months old, according to a new study by French neuroscientists. Read on.

The distressing nonstop crying in babies with colic is often blamed on tummy trouble, but a new study says the problem could be linked with migraine headaches in at least some infants.

Children and teens treated for migraine headaches at three hospitals in Italy and France were much more likely than other kids to have had colic in infancy. The link has been suggested in other research, and if it can be proven, it could offer new hope for treating colic, the researchers said. Read on.