Being born preterm is a known major risk factor for life-changing brain injury, but there is still a lot to understand about ...

Inflated jury verdicts in the first two preterm infant formula cases tried in the country have raised significant concerns for manufacturers and the broader medical community. These cases not only ...

Muscle tone, or the resistance of a muscle to stretch, is generally much lower actively and passively in the preterm infant compared with the full-term infant. [5] In the first few months ...

RDS is quite common in premature infants. Their lungs have underdeveloped air sacs, present in the lungs, that keep them inflated with air. The sacks could not expand due to a lack of surfactant.

Did you know that, according to the CDC and the most recent data, 1 in 10 American babies was born too early in 2022? The ...

Giving birth to a premature baby can undoubtedly cause a significant change of plans for you and your family. The early arrival of your little one requires quite a bit of adjustment. If your bundle of ...

A new study suggests that neighborhoods with fewer educational, health, environmental, and socioeconomic resources may ...

The seriousness of the infectious problems of premature infants (PIs) is proportional to how premature they are, but irrespective of this, they are more serious than those of full-term infants ...

Shortly after that allegedly took place, 36-year-old Kiya Butler, in her family's South J Street apartment, gave birth to a baby who was more than 2 months premature, according to an affidavit.

Avery and colleague Jeremiah “Jere” Mead — with Dr. Clements in an advisory role — determined by late 1958 that surfactant was missing in the lungs of premature infants who died of ...