Most parents know it even if they can't prove it: When a baby becomes distressed, its mother has a unique power to soothe and calm the infant with little more than a loving embrace and some tender ...

A study tied modest frailty gains in a prehab program to lower waitlist death risk in liver transplant candidates. Here is what caregivers can ask the care team. Volunteers found the invented curses ...

A new stress-sensing wireless lie detector can also spot potentially deadly sleep disorders in babies. The patch monitors physical signs of stress, indicative of lying in interviews, when attached to ...

This study demonstrates empirically, for the first time, that synchronized physiology between mothers and babies plays a role in soothing distressed infants, and that treating postpartum depression ...

The study looked at "healthy" and PPD-affected mom-baby pairs In the "healthy" pairs, the mothers were leading the "soothing dance" In the PPD pairs, the babies were leading the dance How is it that ...