To protect newborns, doctors recommend a single shot of vitamin K following birth. It’s not a vaccine, simply a vitamin supplement. For the new study, researchers analyzed data from 25 prior studies ...

Some Alberta doctors say they're seeing a recent and concerning trend of new parents either questioning or refusing vitamin K injections, which have been given to newborns as standard practice for ...

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. These recommendations have significantly reduced ...

New research shows that an increasing number of newborns are not receiving a vitamin K injection designed to prevent excessive bleeding. The percentage of babies that did not receive a vitamin K shot ...