newborn-health

Vitamin K Shot Refusals Nearly Doubled Since 2017. A Cancer Scare Refuted Twenty Years Ago Still Shadows It.

Refusal of the newborn vitamin K shot has nearly doubled since 2017. The injection all but erases a bleed that kills roughly one in five infants it reaches, and the cancer scare still shadowing it was refuted twenty years ago. The institutions losing these parents will not even count the damage.