The bleeding condition has been rare in the U.S. since the 1960s when the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended newborns receive a Vitamin K shot at birth. The Vitamin K shot is not a ...

Carter. The American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending Vitamin K at birth in 1961. Dr. Carter says without this injection newborns are susceptible to Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn or ...

Health care professionals recommend all babies receive a vitamin K injection at birth to help their blood clot effectively.

A coroner has found there was "gross failure in medical care amounting to neglect" in the death of a baby who was not ... William had received a vitamin K shot. "So far as she can recall, when ...