Rising vitamin K refusal rates correlated with later healthcare hesitancy, including higher likelihoods of refusing childhood immunizations.

A new review reveals a concerning rise in parents refusing vitamin K shots for newborns, increasing the risk of ...

Rising refusal rates spark concerns about brain bleed risks ...

Researchers report increasing parental refusal of vitamin K injections at birth. Babies without the shot were 81 times more ...

For more than 60 years, doctors have recommended that babies receive a vitamin K shot at birth to protect them from severe bleeding in early life. This recommendation has significantly reduced vitamin ...

"Our findings point to an urgent need for health care professionals to provide prenatal counseling to parents," said Dr. Semidey.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pediatric hospitalist Jaspreet Loyal recently cared for a newborn who developed bleeding inside their skull after a home birth.

According to a 2021 Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, eight out of 10 U.S. adults take some form of vitamin or mineral supplement. And more than half of U.S. adults take multivitamins to the ...

Dangers of Vitamin K Deficiency: Our bodies need many vitamins to maintain proper functioning. People often talk about ...

The 2-month-old baby arrived at the hospital with the type of bleeding in and around his brain that was so unusual Miami neurosurgeon Heather McCrea had only read about it in textbooks. The pooling ...