St. Joseph Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit in Downtown Houston is caring for some of the region’s most fragile ...

The Early Feeding Skills checklist accounts for the multiple skills infants need to feed successfully. A key factor in determining when premature infants can be discharged home from the hospital is ...

The chances of survival for very premature babies has dramatically increased over the past 30 years, but preterm births are still hard to prevent. Women’s health expert Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones says ...

Journalist and mother Sarah DiGregorio joins us to discuss her new book, “Early,” a deeply personal study of premature birth in the United States. Sarah DeGregorio was only 28 weeks pregnant when she ...

Bringing your preemie home can be daunting. But parents who have participated in their baby’s care in the hospital will be well prepared. Credit...Isabel Seliger Supported by By Amanda Keener This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Moderate and late preterm infants may receive better care at NICUs with fewer complex services, according to a ...

A recent study conducted by neonatologists and nurses at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that a unified approach to the care of extremely premature infants in the first week of life resulted in ...

PREMATURITY is recorded as the primary or contributory cause of death on approximately 50 per cent of the death certificates of infants dying under one year of age in Massachusetts. In 1951 more than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Caring for premature babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which is a serious lung condition that occurs in ...

Supporting preterm infant care through international cooperation and social responsibility initiatives ...

The first comprehensive study of deaths in Australian nursing homes has been published, revealing a more than 400 percent increase in the incidence of premature and potentially preventable deaths of ...