Babies who are born prematurely often don’t have the ability to make the sucking motions needed to get milk from mom or bottles. So researchers designed an electronic pacifier to help them make the ...

Premature babies who receive an interventional therapy combining their mother's voice and a pacifier-activated music player learn to eat more efficiently and have their feeding tubes removed sooner ...

Some say music has a special ability to heal, and now researchers are finding that to be true for some of the tiniest patients.This special pacifier, called a pacifier-activated lullaby device, ...

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