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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved a plan that will extend care through Florida’s Medicaid program for women after they have babies.

The first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage landed in Indianapolis with enough formula for more than a half-million bottles.

But Abbott has said that, after production resumes, it could take about two months before new formula begins arriving in stores. The company's factory has been closed due to contamination problems.

The Mother’s Milk Bank of Florida has gone from receiving a dozen calls a week to a dozen calls a day.

At the Central Florida Diaper Bank in Winter Garden, Sharon Lyles has a front-row seat to the baby formula shortage, especially as it affects low-income parents in Orange County.

Abbott, one of the largest formula-makers in the U.S., has reached an agreement with the government to bring a closed factory back on line. And the FDA is easing some restrictions on imported formula.

The rate of new cases of COVID-19 among babies and children under 4 in the U.S. recently surpassed the rate of new cases among adults older than 65. Here's how to protect a newborn.

Doctors were surprised to find nine babies; scans had shown only seven. "The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well," Mali's health minister says.

The bill would allow babies up to 30 days old to be placed in a “newborn infant safety device” located on exterior walls of fire stations, emergency medical-services stations or hospitals.

A congressional committee has upheld a prohibition against the Food and Drug Administration considering using gene-edited embryos to establish pregnancies.