When a baby is born with a hole in the diaphragm, the heart is squeezed as well as the lungs. Three studies published in 2026 used bedside ultrasound to follow how the heart works before and after the operation that closes the gap. Together they show that the right side of the heart recovers…

About one in every hundred babies is born with a heart defect. Surgery now saves the great majority of them, and attention has shifted to a quieter question: many of these children later find learning, talking, or moving harder than their classmates do. Four studies published in 2025 and 2026 trace…

Being told at a routine pregnancy scan that your baby has a cyst in one lung is frightening, and the honest headline is reassuring: most babies with this finding are born breathing normally and go home with their families. Four studies published between late 2025 and mid 2026 help explain which…

Babies born with Hirschsprung disease need an operation to remove the section of bowel that cannot move stool along. Surgeons can do it in the first month of life or wait a few months. Three studies published in 2025 and 2026 found that both timings are safe, but that they trade different things…

Babies build most of their skeleton in the last weeks of pregnancy. A baby born very early misses that window, and their bones can end up softer and more fragile than they should be — a condition doctors call metabolic bone disease of prematurity. Four studies published in 2025 and 2026 looked at…