First, the good news: Advances in medical care mean the outcomes for preterm babies have improved in recent decades, and even the smallest of premature babies have a greater chance of surviving and ...

Born at just 22 weeks, John Delancey III weighed just over a pound, about the same as a can of soup. His chances were slim.

Early hydrocortisone treatment of extremely premature babies increases their chances of survival without lung disease, ...

Babies around the world face a lot of risks to their health: pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria, to name a few. But it turns out that no single infectious disease takes a greater toll than the simple ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during gestational development and could serve as biomarkers to inform new precision ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The “world’s most premature baby" to survive recently celebrated his first birthday, according to Guinness World Records. The organization says Richard Scott William Hutchinson ...

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 ...

Despite innovative techniques to keep premature babies healthy, death rates and lingering health problems among extremely preterm babies remained unchanged for decades. Premature births, occurring ...

THE Internationally renowned American artist, Alicia Keys is expected to arrive in Tanzania to take part in the inauguration ...