About 10% of births – that’s about 15 million babies – are born prematurely worldwide each year, making preterm births a ...

Preterm infants face specific nutritional challenges, the preterm infant’s nutritional milieu has an important impact on subsequent health especially on the developing brain and on cardiovascular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infants born very preterm spend weeks or even months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) while their immature brains are ...

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers have found that babies given ACS had notably smaller volumes of two key brain ...

Researchers are studying pre-term and full-term children Prem babies are showing more behavioural difficulties such as impatience The behaviours can persist to school age Weighing just 460 grams, her ...

Roughly one in ten babies worldwide is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy – a birth considered preterm. These infants are biologically less mature at birth and face a higher risk of developmental ...

In a cohort of 395 preterm infants (median gestational age, 29.6 weeks), maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) affected 43% of cases and were associated with reduced cognitive and ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have made a concerning discovery about preterm infant brain health: A mild, temporary lack of oxygen that many babies born prematurely may experience ...

The new study finds higher concentrations of microplastics and nanoplastics in the placentas of preterm infants compared to full-term pregnancies. Researchers suggest that this accumulation could ...

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth to help mature the fetus's lungs and reduce the chances of serious health issues. However, ...