infant

Walmart will pay $775,000 to New Jersey to settle allegations it sold expired infant formula and nonprescription drugs in its stores, said state Attorney General Paula T. Dow. The settlement ends a 2008 lawsuit the state brought against Walmart, Target and Drug Fair for violating New Jersey's...

Two federal agencies today issued a warning to parents to stop using infant sleep positioners - marketed as safety devices - following the deaths of 12 infants. They want consumers to stop using them, companies to stop marketing them and retailers to stop selling them. The U.S. Consumer Product...

In its ongoing effort to halt the use of dangerous drop-side cribs, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a two million-crib recall involving seven companies including Evenflo, Child Craft and the maker of the Babi Italia line. The crib companies and the number of cribs involved...

The Gopher State will be a happier place for babies come Jan. 1. That's when it enacts the first-ever ban on plastic sippy cups and baby bottles containing Bisphenol-A. The Federal government has yet to act on BPA, a controversial chemical feared to harm fetuses and children.

I'd always thought the irony was both diabolical and hilarious: products marketed as "infant" medicines included no instructions for children under the age of two, instead suggesting that the worried parent consult his physician. When my first son was a baby, I met those warnings with fear and...