Hill December 8, 2025
More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study found that from January 2017 to December 2024, 3.92 percent of the more than 5 million newborns in a U.S.-based electronic database did not receive a vitamin K shot. The share of newborns who did not receive the shot rose from 2.92 percent in 2017 to 5.18 percent in 2024.
Babies are born with low levels of vitamin K, which is used by the body to form clots and stop bleeding, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Potentially life-threatening bleeding may result from low levels of the vitamin.
The...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor