When a baby arrives before 37 weeks of pregnancy—it can bring along a host of health problems for the baby that leads to emotional stress for the family. While medical care has improved, many preterm ...

Early hydrocortisone treatment of extremely premature babies increases their chances of survival without lung disease, according to a study led by Linköping University. The study also shows that the ...

Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, in managing ductus arteriosus has been controversial, ...

Artificial intelligence shows promise as a predictive tool that can provide assistance in defining a nutritional plan for preterm infants. This is the concept of an innovative study recently published ...

(CNN) — Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and amniotic fluid leaking down her leg – was not how Ashley O’Neil ...

Feeding a baby can be hard — even more so when a baby is born prematurely because it can be more difficult for the mother to produce milk. That’s where many doctors and parents turn to infant formula ...

Despite hopes that early nutrition could enhance brain growth in preterm infants, a new study finds no significant impact—challenging assumptions about feeding strategies in neonatal care. Study: ...

Use of probiotics in neonatal units was associated with decreased mortality in preterm and low-birth-weight infants. Rates of necrotizing enterocolitis and late-onset sepsis were not different versus ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

A St. Louis jury handed Abbott Laboratories a win Thursday, deciding that Abbott, another company and a hospital were not liable after a boy consumed the companies’ cow’s milk-based products for ...