Although malaria is a curable and preventable disease it still kills one million people a year, and infects 350 million. It remains the single largest killer of children in Africa with about 3,000 children dying of the disease there every day.

In The Republic of Congo, one widowed mother who earns $240 a month as a civil servant says she often spends up to $170 a month on medicine to treat her six children for malaria during the year

Citing a dramatic increase in infant deaths, Los Angeles County officials are warning parents not to let babies sleep in the bed with them.

The warning comes at a time when the practice, known as "co-sleeping," is growing in global popularity

Women who are trying to conceive a boy could increase their chances by increasing their calorie intake during the days of conception, a new study has revealed.

The researchers, from Oxford and Exeter universities, found that women with the highest calorie intake before conception were more likely to have a boy than women on a low calorie diet

A new study suggests that folic acid supplementation given prenatally may protect babies from having colorectal cancer.

A team of researchers from University of Toronto studied female rats, grouped them on control diet and folic acid supplementation diet prior to breeding for three weeks and continued until pregnancy and lactation

Omega-3 intake during the last months of pregnancy boosts an infant's cognitive and motor development, a study says.

A team supervised by Université Laval researchers Gina Muckle and Éric Dewailly conducted tests on a group of infants at 6 and 11 months. Researchers measured docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid included in the development of neurons and retinas, in the umbilical cord blood of 109 infants